Ralph wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to obtain data from MassGIS using OLIVER. When I load the > ortho photo raster layer into qgis along with several vector layers as shape > files, all looks good. > > However if I then enable OTF coordinate transformations the layers no longer > register (ortho photo is separate from the rest). > > It appears that the coordinate projection information is not getting into > qgis. The ortho photo data is downloaded as a tif file. However MassGIS > tells me it is really a "geotiff" file, which should have the projection > information. If I copy the tif file and rename the copy to *.geotiff qgis > will still read it and display properly. > > However when I enable OTF I get the same problem. > > Is anyone familiar with using MassGIS raster data in qgis? Can you tell me > if I am doing anything wrong or is qgis simply not reading the file correctly? > > Thanks for any help. > > QGIS at this time does not support Raster projection on the fly. If you want to use this feature you need to select the same projection as the raster for the base projection that everything else is projected to.
The alternative is to use gdal tools to reproject the raster to your intended final projection. Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
