How to Georeference in QGIS (2024)

Learn how to use the Georeferencer tool on scanned maps or satellite imagery in QGIS. It's great fun!
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0:00 Intro
0:41 Add a Basemap via QuickMapServices
1:09 Install OSM Place Search
1:46 Open the Georeferencer Tool
2:13 Add Ground Control Points
4:47 Adjust the Transformation Settings
6:31 Georeference!
6:41 Check the accuracy
7:16 Georeference Again
7:30 Bring the Geotiff into Felt and Digitize
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0:41 Add a Basemap via QuickMapServices
1:09 Install OSM Place Search
1:46 Open the Georeferencer Tool
2:13 Add Ground Control Points
4:47 Adjust the Transformation Settings
6:31 Georeference!
6:41 Check the accuracy
7:16 Georeference Again
7:30 Bring the Geotiff into Felt and Digitize

[@zachmorris6684]

Thank you for this video! While I have yet to find a solution to my underlying problem (trying to georeference a CAD file), this allowed me to easily georeference from a PDF drawing and get polygons from there.

[@feltmaps]

Glad it helped! Thanks for leaving a nice comment.

[@Vigulfr]

Thanks for the tutorial. I watched a couple others before finding this one and this is the one that made it all click for me. I did have some black bars around my image but I found that if you change the output mode to 'Rendered image' it goes away, so all's well.

[@feltmaps]

Glad to hear that this helped! :) Thanks for watching.

[@ryan.shields]

pro tip: occasionally I’ve had some huge geotifs hang on me while running the georeference in QGIS. So just add your points and then use the copy GDAL script button and run it in terminal. Blazes through it every time.

[@feltmaps]

Awesome idea! Thanks Ryan. 😎

[@tomsaunders383]

As you add gcp points you will see red error connectors if there is distortion issues. I use that all the times

[@feltmaps]

Nice!

[@nellomaxim]

Hi Boone, thanks for your Tutorials, I work fo TV and am using Felt and Unreal to make maps... If I want to eliminate the weird black border, how do I do this.
I basically want to impliment my geo referenced texture in Qgis as a layer for Felt so I can make it sit underneath all my other layer data as a BG layer. If you drop the texture in to felt it brings it in as an element and sits/block the layer data.
how do I achive this

[@feltmaps]

Hello! What is the file format of the texture you're importing into Felt? Sounds like it needs to be a geotiff.

[@user-ne3we1rl3s]

Hellow sir
Howbto get tht kind of map at first la

[@feltmaps]

Check out David Rumsey and the Library of Congress.