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	2686	QCAD Bugtracker	QCAD (main)	Feature Request	Low	Enabling the import of GeoTIFF files with their inheren...	Assigned		Sven Kn	Task Description It would be great if it were possible to import GeoTIFF files into QCAD with their specific geolocation. Currently, they lose their position and size during import. It would be a very valuable feature and probably not too difficult to implement. In the QCAD forum I had a discussion about that topic with CVH and he had some valuable insights which I like to cite here: “[...] Since we can create Map Tiles from drawing data (Tutorial) it would indeed be beneficial that bitmap data could be imported correctly. Because the GeoTIFF format is fully compliant with TIFF 6.0 it is simply imported as a bitmap. The question remains if QCAD is really fit to use it as a GIS application. I assume that one can extract the left lower position and scale by other means. With the corner positions for example it should be possible to scale and place the bitmap correctly. Then it should be as simple as adapting the Bitmap entity properties in the Property Editor after insertion.” Regards, Sven

QCAD Bugtracker

QCAD (main)

Feature Request

Low

Enabling the import of GeoTIFF files with their inheren...

Assigned

Task Description

It would be great if it were possible to import GeoTIFF files into QCAD with their specific geolocation. Currently, they lose their position and size during import. It would be a very valuable feature and probably not too difficult to implement.

In the QCAD forum I had a discussion about that topic with CVH and he had some valuable insights which I like to cite here:

“[...] Since we can create Map Tiles from drawing data (Tutorial) it would indeed be beneficial that bitmap data could be imported correctly. Because the GeoTIFF format is fully compliant with TIFF 6.0 it is simply imported as a bitmap.
The question remains if QCAD is really fit to use it as a GIS application. I assume that one can extract the left lower position and scale by other means. With the corner positions for example it should be possible to scale and place the bitmap correctly.
Then it should be as simple as adapting the Bitmap entity properties in the Property Editor after insertion.”

Regards,
Sven

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