I have a question about the Natural Scene Designer to MAPublisher workflow. I've been stumped by this forever.
I am using Natural Scene Designer (5.0, Win) to create a hillshade for a county. I download GridFloat DEM's from the USGS, and import them into NSD. I add an overlay county shapefile so I can make sure I have the correct area, and then I crop them in NSD. I reproject them in NSD into the projection I want to use.
So in NSD, I choose:
Reproject Terrain
Projection: US State Plane 1983
Datum: NAD 83 CONUS
Select a US State Plane Coordinate System: Virginia South 1983
Sample distance: 7 Meters
The terrain looks like it is supposed to, so I do the render. After rendering, I save it as a GeoTiff. NSD creates the TFW file to go along with it.
Then, in MAPublisher, I have a map already set up. It has one Map View that is set to "NAD 1983 State Plane Virginia South FIPS 4502 Feet" that contains the other map layers. This is the projection I would prefer the final map to be in.
In MAPublisher, when I add data, and I select my rendered GeoTiff hillshade, MAPublisher doesn't seem to be getting the correct projection. For the Tiffs, it always says "Alabama east". For a JPG or PNG, it has no projection. I can define the projection for the hillshade to be in the same projection as the Map View, but it never places it on the view at all.
The only way I can get a NSD hillshade into my MAPublisher map, is to put it on a separate Map View and adjust that map view tediously until it lines up behind the original Map View. Since the projection of the rendered hillshade is actually correct (although MAPublisher doesn't recognize it), it is a matter of getting the scale and xy coordinates just right to match the other Map View. I would ideally like the new hillshade to be in the same Map View as the rest of the layers. Do you guys have any suggestions?
One other note, bringing the hillshade into ArcMap is no better. ArcMap reads the TIFF's projections as being "NAD 83 Tranverse Mercator", Meters. For JPG and PNG, undefined.
Thank you for your help.
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I am using Natural Scene Designer (5.0, Win) to create a hillshade for a county. I download GridFloat DEM's from the USGS, and import them into NSD. I add an overlay county shapefile so I can make sure I have the correct area, and then I crop them in NSD. I reproject them in NSD into the projection I want to use.
So in NSD, I choose:
Reproject Terrain
Projection: US State Plane 1983
Datum: NAD 83 CONUS
Select a US State Plane Coordinate System: Virginia South 1983
Sample distance: 7 Meters
The terrain looks like it is supposed to, so I do the render. After rendering, I save it as a GeoTiff. NSD creates the TFW file to go along with it.
Then, in MAPublisher, I have a map already set up. It has one Map View that is set to "NAD 1983 State Plane Virginia South FIPS 4502 Feet" that contains the other map layers. This is the projection I would prefer the final map to be in.
In MAPublisher, when I add data, and I select my rendered GeoTiff hillshade, MAPublisher doesn't seem to be getting the correct projection. For the Tiffs, it always says "Alabama east". For a JPG or PNG, it has no projection. I can define the projection for the hillshade to be in the same projection as the Map View, but it never places it on the view at all.
The only way I can get a NSD hillshade into my MAPublisher map, is to put it on a separate Map View and adjust that map view tediously until it lines up behind the original Map View. Since the projection of the rendered hillshade is actually correct (although MAPublisher doesn't recognize it), it is a matter of getting the scale and xy coordinates just right to match the other Map View. I would ideally like the new hillshade to be in the same Map View as the rest of the layers. Do you guys have any suggestions?
One other note, bringing the hillshade into ArcMap is no better. ArcMap reads the TIFF's projections as being "NAD 83 Tranverse Mercator", Meters. For JPG and PNG, undefined.
Thank you for your help.
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