[Qgis-user] Display of Contour Map

[Federico Nadela]

I  now have the .shp file of the contour map on the Layers (left) sideboard. How do I go about displaying the contour map? I noticed that when I clicked on the .shp file that there are many Layer Properties to be filled in. What would be the parameters be to display a contour map?
Federico M. Nadela
 

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 From: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>
To: Federico M Nadela <fmnadela at yahoo.com> 
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org 
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Contour Generation
  

Hi Federico,
Please email the list, and not the person directly.
The purpose of lists is to pool knowledge, not to give courses, so
      all conversations relevant to the list should stay with the list.

Judging by your unfamiliarity with raster and vector data formats,
      it seems like you need deeper knowledge about what you are doing,
      rather than just assistance with the use of QGis.

I don't have any URLs I can suggest for this, but perhaps someone
      else on this list can help.

Kind regards,
Zoltan


On 2012/08/31 12:29, Federico M Nadela wrote:
 
Dear Zoltan, 
>Many thanks for your prompt reply. I have not used shape file before so you have to walk me through. My DSM is in .tiff format. Can I use that instead of .shp? 
>Please give me a sample of an acceptable output file. Thanks! 
>Federico 
>
>Sent from my iPhone 
>
>On Aug 31, 2012, at 14:47, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za> wrote:
>
> 
>On 2012/08/31 08:36, Federico Nadela wrote:
>> 
>>I have reached as far as the Contour tab but unable to specify an acceptable output file path in the Output file for contour lines(vector). I tried to input C:/User/Fritz/Documents/Temp.shp but got an error message that says it is not a directory. I tried other paths but they were all unacceptable. Please advise. Thanks! 
>>>Federico M. nadela   
>>> 
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Yep, true - if your 'Temp.shp' is not a DIRECTORY within your documents folder.
>>
>>What you and I call "shapefiles" is actually a group of 3 or
          more files that are needed by ESRI and other GIS products that
          use 'shapefile format'
>>
>>For this reason you must specify the name of an existing
          directory, and not a filename that you want to create.
>>
>>Are you sure the "other paths" you tried existed and were actually directory names?
>>
>>HTH,
>>Zoltan
>>
>>
>>
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