[Qgis-user] Importing USGS DEMs

2009-06-27 Thread Brook Milligan
I am having trouble importing USGS DEMs into qgis. One example of a problem file is at: http://rgisedac.unm.edu/elevation/dem10m/32105F5dem.zip How should this type of file be handled in order to successfully import it? Thanks for your help. Cheers, Brook

Re: [Qgis-user] Importing USGS DEMs

2009-06-27 Thread John C. Tull
Works fine for me. The link should have a lower case 'f' in the file name. You need to uncompress the file before trying to use it in qgis, but if you have gdal compiled with dem support, you should be good to go. John On Jun 27, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Brook Milligan wrote: I am having

Re: [Qgis-user] Importing USGS DEMs

2009-06-27 Thread John C. Tull
Brook, Likely, you need to set the color options in the layer properties. I'm not too familiar with how you do that correctly, but maybe someone else will suggest the right steps. I'm using a build from trunk and it sets the color table correctly for me. You might try the 1.1.0 version

Re: [Qgis-user] Importing USGS DEMs

2009-06-27 Thread Brook Milligan
John C. Tull writes: Likely, you need to set the color options in the layer properties. I'm not too familiar with how you do that correctly, but maybe someone else will suggest the right steps. Yes, it seems that I can display the data using the 'pseudocolor' or 'freak out' (what

Re: [Qgis-user] Importing USGS DEMs

2009-06-27 Thread John C. Tull
It works fine for me in qgis 1.0.2 as well as 1.2.0. What version of gdal? Mine is 1.6.0. My layer properties are set to single gray band using band 1 and a grayscale colormap. Also, the contrast enhancement setting is Stretch to MinMax. John On Jun 27, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Brook Milligan