It may sound like I know what I am talking about, but you may not want to make that assumption.
Everything is working fine for you. Older USGS topo maps (~1980 and earlier) are in NAD27 datum. Newer maps (~1990 and newer) might be in WGS84, but I'm not sure about that. I'm thinking if you change your datum to NAD27 that deviation may go away. I believe the older files can be changed to WGS84 with GDAL if needed, but I generally just leave them in NAD27. In MO, where I normally work, the difference between NAD27 and WGS84 is pretty small - roughly the amount shown on your maps. I would expect it to be higher where you are working - near Oakland, CA: http://www.mflan.com/temp/shift.png Mike On 4/19/20 4:41 AM, qgis-user-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:43:03 -0700 From: Morgan Fletcher<mor...@hahaha.org> To:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-user] Dumb USGS geotiff questions Message-ID: <capwdt1xd78gqovago1d86ktek0vt0ow2dt_zj+xrecn4anp...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" (Resending, with screenshots as google drive links, to cut down message size.) I am running 3.12.1-București on a mac, os-x 10.14.6. My knowledge of GIS is rudimentary, I've learned what I need to, to satisfy my curiosity about my region, using old maps. I have downloaded all the USGS maps for my region - Oakland, CA, USA, which corresponds to "CA Concord" - from USGS topoView, in geotiff format. Opening them in QGIS gives fairly wild offsets; they are not all encoded the same way, yet have common corners. Features on the map vary with what modern maps show, but getting their corners right would help me a lot. If I create a new project, set my CRS to WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) as I think is correct for my base map, Google Maps (EPSG:3857 - WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator - Projected) then Layer > Add Layer > Add Raster Layer > Raster Dataset > CA_Concord_465520_1943_62500_geo.tif > Add, I get prompted with: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FKVPrHLtXXKK8a-QTTz3IigT9dpj1Hou/view?usp=sharing I don't know what to choose, here. I chose the first one. I've tried others. The tif.prj file does say DATUM["D_North_American_1927",SPHEROID["Clarke_1866",6378206.4,294.9786982]], which I am guessing conforms to NAD27. If I add an opacity slider to the new raster layer, set its opacity, and then use the Zoom to Coordinate panel to navigate to 37º45'N 122º15'W, I find that the point is off from what's on the map, see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10vYtcM1FZ-vdS3z1FPW2EYbrNy2sj65L/view?usp=sharing This is similarly true at the top left: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18naBKuwk6rZ9DP0tFOZxnGKlIpRQgDKM/view?usp=sharing Also, note how the map shows two lines at top left, it's true at top right. This is something to do with projection, I think. I've tried to georeference these lines, to get them to line up right, but which intersection do I use, when there are two vertical lines intersecting with the top, horizontal border, to reference 122º 15' 38º 00' ? I've had mixed results, trying to use deg-min-ss coordinates to georeference these; I get a map off the west coast of Africa. Using points on the map is more successful. All the maps have slightly variant values in their tfw files. Their prj files are more uniform, but also show variations. I'd like to normalize them all, so that I can view the USGS topo maps for my region over time. Advice? Thanks, Morgan
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