[Qgis-user] raster noob orientation

[Lukas Winiwarter]

Dr OM Chuck,

great that you are looking into identifying SOTA peaks with QGIS!

The European Copernicus Program supplies a DTM for Europe, with a 
spatial resolution of 12m. This should probably be good enough. You need 
to set up an account on their website. Also, take care to observe the 
coordinate reference systems, which is EPSG:3035 (ETRS89, LAEA) for the 
European data. The data can be downloaded here:

http://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1?fieldsetlegend-download=True-selected-@dem-v1-1-e50n20

Good luck and vy 73,

OE1LZW / Lukas

On 10.08.2017 14:53, chuck y wrote:
> All,
>
> I want to start a new raster file project in GQIS 2.18.11 on win7, using a
> terrain raster image as layer one  I have found numerous tutorials with
> sample data but so far no useful instructions on the finer points of how to
> do this simple task.  Note that I have tried to download Google Natural
> Earth 1:10.000.000 large scale rasters but keep getting a 404 not found
> error, so they must not be available.  The other scale  Natural Earth
> rasters are not usable as I will need to zoom down further than they
> support.
>
> So the next step is to find a usable substitute, but so far I am fumbling
> around and wasting hours by guessing at what the various raster file types
> will look like in QGIS. Would someone kindly suggest at least a substitute
> WGS84 raster file and a link to where I can find it?
>
> FWIW my goal is to assemble a multilayer terrain elevation analysis project
> for evaluating mountain peaks and cols in Albania for SOTA (Summits on the
> Air) use.
>
> tnx in advance.
>
> chuck
>
>
>
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