Recommended distortion method for matching two images

I have two images of North America as separate layers that I'm trying to line up as closely as possible. One is a color image of the earth's surface while the other is a grayscale image representing the topography of the terrain. There are many obvious visual features in the images to use for matching, but I'm not sure what is the best tool or workflow for distorting, scaling, skewing, etc. I have previously been using "Warp," but while I can line up certain areas easily, other areas appear quite difficult to line up. I'm wishing there was a way to define "features" that I want matched up and then let Photoshop do an automated process, but I think that may be asking a little much. Because the images may have been taken from different angles, it's not just a simple non-proportional scale problem. Some areas need to be squished while other areas need to be stretched. Any suggestions?

If the two maps are from different sources or different times, or have been created using different map projections, or if the two maps have different levels of accuracy, you may not be able to get a perfect match-up.
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Hello,
I reopen here a question that I posted on another forum (macrumors):
I have converted almost 1,000 video files from MPG1 to MOV in order importing them to Final Cut Pro (FCP can't import directly MPG1!).
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Folder 2 the converted VideoXXXX.mov files.
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My problem is that the creation date of files in the Folder 2 is the "conversion" time (July 2012) instead the original creation time (from 2005 to 2010).
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Wooow...
How many helping responses! Thanks to you all.
I am trying the first sugested solution.
I have tried adding "file" to theOriginalFile twtwtw script.
(name of file theOriginalFile)
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