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I'm having trouble with two maps, both UTM33N/WGS84. They should be exactly on top of each other but there is a slight shift between them of probably a few hundred meters or so. enter image description here

I Tried to adjust this with the Vector Affine Transformation Plugin but didn't succeed. I don't know how to use it.

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    Have a look at the answer here - qgsAffine is not easy to use, but works once you know the numbers to plug in. I do agree with @Darren Cope's suggestion though - check the origins and intended scale of each layer to see if they even should line up.
    – Simbamangu
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 16:50
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    Are you sure both datasets are on wgs84? A few hundred meters could be due to different datums.
    – mkennedy
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 18:08

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I think we are getting somewhere. The original shapefile (contained in forste-orig.zip) appears to be Pulkovo 1942(83)/Gauss-Kruger Zone 4, which is EPSG:2398. So if you load this into QGIS and set its CRS to EPSG:2398, then save it as EPSG:32633 this should do the trick. Nick.

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To me this looks like a 'scale' issue. The layers appear to be drawn at a different level of detail, and thus will never line up exactly. Am I missing something?

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  • The curves look to have the same level of detail to me.
    – nmpeterson
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 17:40
  • @nmpeterson; I really don't think so. Look in the bottom-left corner specifically. There's no way this is can be a 'matching' dataset. Please don't downvote without closer inspection!
    – Darren Cope
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 18:33
  • I inspected rather closely. The blobby features' coastal path seem to be a convex hull of the underlying polygons, but shifted dramatically (as the OP believes).
    – nmpeterson
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 18:44
  • It doesn't help that the underlying features seem to be only a sample of a larger dataset, making it more difficult for us to know where the actual "coastline" is in certain places, like the lower left -- are those actually islands, or just polygons whose neighbors aren't a part of the sample?
    – nmpeterson
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 18:46
  • Which is the dataset with the problems? If it's not confidential could you post a download link? Nick.
    – nhopton
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 19:31
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Found it! Just go to Layer Styling and adjust the offset, x or y.

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