Hi You could also try OpenEV for 3d visualisation,,,,
Regards Tim 2007/2/10, Amanda Wintcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Brent Wood wrote: > > QGIS (AFAIK) does not support 3D displays of terrain models. It can display > vector (point/line/polygon) and georeferenced raster (terrain models, imagery) > in 2D (from above) only- basically a plan view. > Whoops! I guess I missed that very simple piece of information! Sorry about that. > To use SRTM data with QGIS, I believe you'll need to generate georeferenced > images from the SRTM terrain model, or download such imagery. GRASS & GMT can > generate such imagery from the SRTM model. QGIS does not have the analytical > capabilities to do this (yet). > As said elsewhere on the list, I don't really need to be able to see the data as 3D (except that it will impress my advisors), and I don't plan to try and print anything other than flat images in the final product. I presume that if I have the information in the file, generated using one of the methods above, that I can still use the elevation data in calculations of things like visibility or slope via qGIS? Or am I really better off using GRASS by itself? > > Thank you all very much for your help and patience. Amanda _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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