Re: [Qgis-user] Dumb USGS geotiff questions

Hi Morgan, i would suggest to NOT use Pseudo Mercator as the projects CRS and therefore also not the Google Maps Layer as a Base Layer. Pseudo Mercator is from my experience simply not made for these kinds of work, because its accuracy is limited especially when it comes to locations away from

Re: [Qgis-user] Dumb USGS geotiff questions

Trying this again. Thanks, Mike Flanagan, for trying to help me the first time. I start a new project in QGIS 3.12. I have a USGS map CA_Concord_297163_1915_62500_geo.tif, downloaded from here , the "Concord, CA 1915, 1915 edition"

Re: [Qgis-user] Dumb USGS geotiff questions

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 To:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-user] Dumb USGS

[Qgis-user] Dumb USGS geotiff questions

(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