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Introduction

This tutorial will guide you through the process of georeferencing a map. To georeference a map or image you need at least 3 tie points. These points should cover as much of the map as possible. In this tutorial we will use a map from Geoscience Australia. In this map we will use the crossing points between the graticules as tie points. This map is in WGS84, Mercator Central Meridian 126, Latitude of True Scale 13

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Import an image into your project

  1. Create a Generic folder (i.e. a folder with schema Generic) and rename that folder to Maps or something similar.
  2. Right-click the new folder and go to Import > Generic. Browse for the image AMJ_70183.png in the folder \data\06Maps\ and click Open
  3. Make sure the schema of the image set to Image Data.
  4. Click Execute

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