Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-12-03 Thread peter
On Sunday 02 December 2007 4:02 am, peter wrote: I don't think I did the georeferencing correctly so I'll try it again. OK...I tried it again. Everything looks good but I still can't get the vector layer to display over the photo. It's like they're in two different extents. If I zoom to

Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-12-01 Thread peter
On Friday 30 November 2007 7:38 pm, Magnus Homann wrote: When you georef the photos, do you use Helmert transform (i.e. turn them)? Hello Magnus, A...thanks! Helmert did the trick (I think). The photo now looks like it's been turned the right amount. I'm not sure if it's exactly aligned

Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-11-30 Thread Magnus Homann
peter wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2007 5:17 pm, peter wrote: I'll try it today and see what happens. Well, I created the NAD83/MTM Zone 23 projection as suggested and loaded the shape file and it looks better. The shape file is rotated slightly more counter-clockwise so that

Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-11-29 Thread peter
On Thursday 29 November 2007 9:45 am, Tom Elwertowski wrote: It looks like you've now read all the websites that I have that refer to 3TM and MTM :) Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try it today and see what happens. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible There are 10 kinds of people in the

Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-11-29 Thread peter
On Thursday 29 November 2007 5:17 pm, peter wrote: I'll try it today and see what happens. Well, I created the NAD83/MTM Zone 23 projection as suggested and loaded the shape file and it looks better. The shape file is rotated slightly more counter-clockwise so that north-south roads have an

Re: [Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-11-28 Thread peter
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 11:07 pm, peter wrote: So, is there any way to fix this or am I just going to have to get used to seeing (and printing) distorted maps from qgis? I've tried various steps to re-project the maps but the display does not change. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display

2007-11-27 Thread peter
Greetings all, I've seen this question asked a few times, but have never come across a workable solution. Whenever I open any map data from my area (Lethbridge, Alberta) in qgis (or grass) the maps are distorted (ie. east-west roads look longer than they should, north-south roads look