Hi Torsten, Have a look at Faunalia's QGIS intro, whilst it's specific for the UK, it does deal with raster data (which is what the dem is likely to be). http://www.faunalia.co.uk/qgisgettingstarted
The user manual is also quite comprehensive: http://qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html Hope this helps, Michael > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:45:19 +0100 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] free DEM data in QGis > To: Torsten Lange <[email protected]> > > > Hi Torsten, > If your question is how do you get the (SRTM) data, try something > like: > http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/ - Earth Explorer from the > USGS > Or http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ - or various other places. > If you just want to use it as a basemap then I'm guessing you just > add it like a regular raster. If you want to use it to drape other data > over so you can do 3D I'm not sure if QGIS could do that or if it would be > the best solution - there are other open-source GIS's for that. > Hope that helps. > Jonathan > > From: Torsten Lange <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 02/08/2011 23:55 > Subject: [Qgis-user] free DEM data in QGis > Sent by: [email protected] > > Hi! > > I'm novice to use free DEM data. I work on a medium (~60km) scale area in > Germany. It's basically about geology. As don't need accurate DEM data for > the > time being I read through google that gtopo30 or (even better ?) DTED data > > from German Aerospace Center may be utilized, which are all free of > charge. > > Actually I don't know where to start. Could anyone please give some > comments > about how would be the general procedure to load those data into QGis? > Useful > links are appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Torsten
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