[Qgis-user] extracting elevations from DEM at certain points

[Victor Olaya]

You can use the Processing tool "Add grid values to points", which
allows you to sample multiple raster layers and add their values to a
point layer

It is available in the SAGA provider.



2015-12-16 8:50 GMT+01:00 Siki Zoltan <siki at agt.bme.hu>:
> Dear Szilard,
>
> there is a point sampling plugin for QGIS:
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/pointsamplingtool/
>
> Regards,
> Zoltan
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Szilard Albert wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to extract elevation values from a DEM at certain points for which
>> I
>> have X and Y values.
>> My points are contained in several profiles, each profile with hundreds of
>> points.
>>
>> My input is a text file, one file per profile,  with the following format:
>>
>> PointA X Y
>> PointB X Y
>> ......
>> PointZ X Y.
>>
>> I would like a solution where I can feed the above text input, and get my
>> output as another text file
>> with similar format, Point X Y Z (or Point Z X Y). Alternatively just a
>> text file with one column containing Z,
>> but exactly same number of rows, so I can copy and paste to the input.
>>
>> One single command that solves one point only would do as well, I would
>> just create a script file from my every
>> text file for every line....
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> I am using QGIS 2.8 Wien in Ubuntu.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Szilard
>>
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