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I digitized a map using QGIS. What I have right now is simply the geolocated version of the picture below (including labels, streets, lakes etc.), i.e. the file does not have any layers or attributes. What I aim to do is to create separate shapefiles/polygons for the green, yellow and red areas displayed in the image below. Thus these should be created based on the respective area's color in the picture.

I'm a total beginner with QGIS and did not find anything on how to do this online.

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  • Use contour polygons, see: gis.stackexchange.com/a/420866/88814
    – Babel
    Commented Jan 15, 2022 at 10:36
  • I should have been clearer. What I have thus far is simply the digitized version of the map, in other words a picture with geo-coordinates. The map does not have any attributes or layers. It's just a picture.
    – erpunkt
    Commented Jan 15, 2022 at 11:30
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    – Ian Turton
    Commented Jan 15, 2022 at 11:32
  • thank you for the comment, I just edited my question and hopefully it now fits the guidelines.
    – erpunkt
    Commented Jan 15, 2022 at 11:34
  • So yes - what's the problem with contour polygons? This should work.
    – Babel
    Commented Jan 15, 2022 at 11:38

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Thanks to the link posted by @Babel, I was able to solve the problem. Example for the green color:

  1. Use "Identify Features" "Identify Features" button on the input image and click on a number of green areas of the map.

  2. While doing so, note the entries in "Band1", "Band2", "Band3". Identify the maximum and minimum values for the respective color after collecting this data for a number of points. enter image description here

  3. Then open the "raster calculator" processing algorithm in QGIS enter image description here

  4. Use the following code to set the min and max for each band. Note that in my case the bands are called "coverage_geocoded". Further, the input layer / reference layer needs to be chosen.

   "coverage_geocoded@1" > 40 and "coverage_geocoded@1" < 105 and 
   "coverage_geocoded@2" >  100 and "coverage_geocoded@2" < 165 and
   "coverage_geocoded@3"  > 50 and "coverage_geocoded@3" < 145

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  1. Run algorithm. This creates a new layer with value equal to 1 if the respective section of the image is green:

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Note: To find the "correct" min and max values I had to run the algorithm multiple times, while adjusting the values for points that were not correctly classified before.

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