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The study and mapping of land surfaces, including relief (relative positions and elevations) and the position of natural and constructed features.
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Rough edges on tiles in QGIS
You get this kind of picture because every file has a different range of gray values, and QGIS scales the colours between min and max seperately. To solve this:
Create a virtual raster on all your f …
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I want to create my own topographic map
To start off, you have to choose a coordinate reference system. The one used by Openstreetmap (EPSG:3857 or 900913) does not have real meters as units, because the horizontal lengths (latidues) are al …
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Why are poles missing from GIS topographic data?
There is no SRTM data of the pole regions because
the shuttle flight did not cover that area and
the nature of the recording makes it difficult to gather data from ice areas (same as some mountain r …
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Combine multiple USGS topo quads into a single seamless raster?
My best advice is to follow the instructions provided by the GDAL devs at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/USGS_PDF_Topo
It contains a python script to extract the neatline from the PDF metadata.
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Mercator vs. Web Mercator for Large Scale Topographic Maps
It depends on the extent of your area of interest.
Transverse mercator is conformal along the central meridian, while Mercator (in its original form) is conformal along the center latitude. That does …
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How can I properly clip a shapefile to get the section I want using QGIS?
Please DO NOT use Set CRS for Layer if you want to reproject a vector layer to another CRS. This will corrupt your data, because it does not recalculate any coordinates.
Use Rightclick Save As ... un …
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Overlap between Google Earth and Topographic OSM
QGIS allows you to use Google Earth as background layer via the Openlayers plugin and Openstreetmap data as vector layer on top of it. Using OSM data via the Openlayers plugin would not bring the desi …
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