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QGIS georeferencer - GCP projection problem

The problem only occurs if you re-open the modified image that Georeferencer saved as a geotiff, rather than opening the original (unmodified, not georeferenced) image file used initially. There are …
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QGIS "transform error" messages - how to stop them?

In QGIS, I am getting an error message every time I edit a node. Also, there is a lot of lag in performance. … I saved those layers as SHP files (resetting the projection to GDA94) to see if QGIS works better with SHP. And it did, for a few hours. Now the error messages are back. What is wrong? …
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QGIS georeferencer - GCP projection problem

(QGIS 2.6, Windows 64 bit). In Georeferencer, I create a number of GCPs (i.e. control points) by referencing to objects in the map canvas. … However, they do appear correctly on the map canvas (the main QGIS screen). In the Georeferencer window, they have in fact displayed, but half a world away to the south. …
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Where does QGIS write its error log messages?

I want to read and copypaste the error log for the crashes I am experiencing in QGIS 2.0. The error I am getting freezes QGIS so I have to ctrl-alt-del. … When I re-open it, the log message panel has reset to zero (QGIS starting, etc), so all the transform error messages I want are gone. Are the older log messages written to disk somewhere? …
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Is there a way to hillshade vector polygons with a DEM in QGIS?

While I could make a jpeg of the cadastral regions and drape that (never done it in QGIS, but I think you can call GRASS to do it), is there a way to directly drape and hillshade the vectors? … The screenshot below provides me with a solution to my initial question, "is there a way to hillshade vector polygons with a DEM in QGIS". …
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QGIS Numerical Vertex Edit - anyone else finding it doesn't work?

The QGIS Numerical Vertex Edit plug-in used to work fine, but stopped working for me around about QGIS 2.6. I now use QGIS 2.8.1 Windows 64 bit. …
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Georeferencing raster in QGIS

In QGIS, the Georeferencer tool found under the Raster menu is the way to properly register an aerial photograph (or a scanned map, etc.) to your GIS mapping. Georeferencer is not automatic. …
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Contacting developer of QGIS plugin?

I want to give feedback to the developer of a non-core QGIS plugin. …
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QGIS snapping not working for me

I am new to QGIS, and this is a very basic question. I made a new polygon layer, to trace cadastral boundaries off a raster map. I want the polygon nodes on adjoining acreages to snap together. …
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QGIS snapping not working for me

To close this off. I'll provide my own answer as per commentator's suggestion. To recap, I could not get nodes on adjacent polygons to snap together when I hovered one node over the other. It turns o …
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Making polygon from intersecting lines in QGIS using Polygonize or similar?

In QGIS, I want to make polygons from a set of intersecting lines. … I have 64-bit QGIS 2.01 installed to Windows 7 from the installer package, QGIS-OSGeo4W-2.0.1-3-Setup-x86_64.exe. …
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Make holes in a polygon from existing smaller polygons

If neither these processes are possible, can someone suggest another workflow to achieve the same thing within QGIS, or else confirm that QGIS is unable to do this. … Polygons created by QGIS ‘Lines to polygon’ command …
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Installing latest QGIS version on Ubuntu?

Open your command line terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T), and then type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis or if you want to install Grass as well, sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get … install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass …
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How to get QGIS to display grayscale of an SRTM geotiff?

I cannot get QGIS to recognise my SRTM geotiff as having any grayscale elevation data. … The screenshot from QGIS further below, where I have opened the same geotiff file and checked the properties histogram, shows that none of this elevation data is apparently recognised by QGIS. …
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Extracting and saving polygons by attribute in QGIS [duplicate]

How can I do this efficiently in QGIS? I have added a screenshot of the shapefile (from MapInfo, but I want to use QGIS for the disaggregation). …
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