Thanks Saber, Micha and Carlos for your responses,
I tried the v.to.rast.attribute route (and also v.rast.value), but couldn’t get
those tool to work with my data set (and I’m still exploring this issue and
trying to work out what’s going on as they look like useful tools to be able to
use).
However, returning to the original Rasterize tool, I examined the raster data
layer which was created in more detail and found that while the histogram was
saying that the maximum value was 0.995968, when I interrogated the individual
grid cells with the Interrogate Features tool, the values were indeed one where
they should be. Thus, my problem was not that the Rasterize tool was not
working, but rather that it wasn’t being displayed correctly in QGIS.
To deal with this, I went into the Layer Properties and under the Style tab, I
changed the maximum value from 0.995968 to 1. This made the legend in the Table
Of Contents window look a little odd, but the layer displayed correctly, has
the right value in it, and does the correct calculations when using the raster
calculator tool.
I’m not too sure why the layer is not being displayed correctly in the Table Of
Contents window in the first place. Similarly, if I remove the raster data
layer from the my project and add it back in again, it reverts to saying the
maximum value is 0.995968 rather than 1 in the legend in the Table Of Contents
window and in the histogram for the data layer. Thus, each time I use it in a
new project, I have to manually change the maximum number to 1.
I don’t know if this is a bug as such, or if this happens with other data sets
(it happened with both of mine – one point and one line data layer), but it is
certainly a potential pitfall for the novice user when it occurs.
All the best,
Colin
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Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with Rasterize (Vector to raster) tool
Perhaps raster calculator can also help you
Expression:
(layer>0 and layer <= 1)
Gives us 1 when sentence is true and 0 for false, for each cell in "layer".
Good luck
Carlos
2014-04-10 9:29 GMT-05:00 Micha Silver <[email protected]>:
Using GRASS there are two modules you can consider. First :
v.to.rast in=... out=... type=point use=val value=1
will convert points into raster cells (at the current region settings), where
any cell that contains at least one point will be given value 1.
Next:
r.in.xyz in=... out=... method=sum
will create a raster (at the current region settings) where each cell will
have a value = the count of points in that cell.
HTH,
Micha
On 04/10/2014 04:20 PM, Colin D. MacLeod wrote:
Hi All,
I’m a fairly experienced GIS user, but I’m new to QGIS. I’m using version
2.2, and I’m trying to convert a point data layer into a raster data layer
using the Rasterize tool. The point data layer has an integer field with a
value of 1 for all records, and I want to make a raster data layer which has a
value of one for each cell which has at least one point in it (some cells have
more than one point in them). When I use the Rasterize tool, it creates the
raster data layer fine, but all cells with have points in them appear to have a
value of 0.995968. I’ve tried editing the gdal code (even making the resulting
raster data layer an integer layer), but I still cannot get it to produce a
raster with a value of 1 rather than just a number very close to one.
Does anyone have any suggestions of where I might be going wrong and/or how
to solve this issue?
On a related note, is it possible to use the Rasterize tool to work out the
average or total values for all the points which fall in each grid cell? If so,
how (I can’t find anything in the gdal instructions themselves which would
suggest this is possible, but I might be missing something). If this isn’t
possible to do with the Rasterize tool, are there other tools in QGIS which can
do this?
Thanks for any help anyone can give on this.
All the best,
Colin
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