On 11/18/2015 06:14 AM, Bernd Vogelgesang wrote: > Hi, > there once was a plug-in in the repository, that downloaded SRTM-DEM > data for your canvas area. > This was a quite convenient function. The "normal" way to find the > websites, browse through clunky dialogs etc. and then download sth which > then maybe has to be stitched together to be usable is not so nice. > > Does anyone has an idea where this plug-in came from and where it went > to? Were there some legal issues, or hasn't it just been updated and got > deprecated? > > I would really like to see such a function come back into QGIS, > especially in combination with the QGIS2threejs-plug-in, it would give > the opportunity to create quick 3D-visualizations of your area. > > Cheers > Bernd
I can't think of a legal reason (the data is Public Domain), though you do need to login to download from the USGS. Did the plugin do 30m or 90m SRTM? I have everything that's been released for 30m on my university servers, just haven't gotten around to setting up the WCS on top of it. Once that's done, a redo of such a plugin should be quite easy. For 90m DEM there actually quite a few easily accessible variants of it around the web that could be scripted against. Though I think you'd need to use a tile index to pull the needed tiles, and then cut to canvas. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user