Oh and you have to check the Project on the Fly box (1.7+) in addition to selecting the projection.
Enjoy, Alex On 07/29/2011 10:45 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > That depends, if you're using 1.7 that should work anything older and it > won't. But I actually meant you should use the GDALTools plugin to > reproject the file (Transformation). > > Enjoy, > Alex > > On 07/29/2011 10:32 AM, Magnus Ekhall wrote: >> I've tried that by going to Settings -> Project Settings and switching >> to SWEREF99 there (immediate coordinate transformation box is ticked). >> >> But nothing happens at all which is surprising. >> >> When I look at the paper map I can see that indeed the SWEREF99 >> coordinates are square, but the WGS84 are stretched vertically. >> >> Am I doing something wrong with the reprojection? >> >> Regards, >> Magnus >> >> On 29 July 2011 19:27, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 07/29/2011 09:49 AM, Magnus Ekhall wrote: >>>> I'm a beginner with qgis and need some help. >>>> >>>> I've scanned a map and georeferenced it using the plugin. >>>> >>>> When it appears in qgis it looks stretched: about double as wide as on >>>> paper. >>>> However, the coordinates are correct. I can load a gpx-file into a >>>> vector layer, and it gets overlaid on the correct parts of the raster >>>> map. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to change horizontal and/or vertical scale on the screen? >>>> >>>> I think the reason might be (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the >>>> paper map is originally in SWEREF99, but I georeferenced in using >>>> points of WGS84... >>>> >>>> I tried to georeference it in SWEREF99 directly, but then the gpx >>>> tracks would load to completely different areas. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Magnus >>> >>> Try reprojecting it to the SWEREF99 and it will likely look more like >>> the paper map. >>> >>> Enjoy, >>> Alex >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
