How to export/save a layer composition to GeoTiff?

Question

I want to export/save a QGIS composition of raster/vector layers to a GEOTIFF or ECW raster with high resolution (20 000 * 20 000 Pixel).

Answer 1

If you save the map canvas to a tif file, it will automagically be georeferenced. (A new, amazing feature in QGIS...). The resolution however will be the computer screen resolution. (96 dpi). So probably no more than 1900X1200 pixels.

Answer 2

Save a complete QGIS project, rasters and vectors, to a high-resolution GeoTIFF? I don't think you can do this (at present). What you can do is export high-res images from the print composer and then georeference them.

See this feature request: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5840

Nick.

Answer 3

I resolved the problem by applying MapServer's Shp2img.exe repeaetadly.

MapServer is able to render a qGis project, if the project gets first exported by the standard MapServer plugin to a *.map file. Subsequently it is possible to render the project to a image file (png, jpg, tif). Unfortunately there is a limit of - lets say more or less - 10000*10000 pixel.

But by writting some programming code, it is possible to manipulate the content of the *.map file and apply sequently the shp2img.exe to single tiles of the qGis project. In the last steps the single tile images can be merged using gdalbuildvrt and gdal_translate. As output an ECW or a GEOTIFF of huge size can be produced. I wrote a small tool to automatize the process and I could export a qGis view to ECW rasters with 100'000 * 100'000 pixel! I guess there is no restriction with higher resoulutions.

As precondition FWTools2.4.7 must be installed. FWTools2.4.7 contans MapServer and GDAL with ECW output support.

I wonder why the rester export of qGis views is not a standard feature of qGis... Is it really only me who wants to export a qGis view to a well used raster format (like ECW or GEOTIFF)???