It is easy to export a raster file as a georeferenced images with e.g., GRASS, QGIS or gdal. It becomes more complicated if you want to export a map, composed of different layers. In QGIS, you can create very nice maps with the ‘print composer’, but these maps are not geo-referenced. A solution by Underdark is to use the QGIS command line to create a snapshot of a map, which will give you an image of any size and with corresponding world file. It works like a charm, except for the “any size” part. The function, on my system, does not handle very large image sizes very well.
But why not creating the World file myself? Continue reading “Create wld file for map image”