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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>I have created a vector layer from a spreadsheet that contains water depths and x-y coordinates in latitude and longitude (276 points in all, see attached). I've used the Interpolation plugin to create a TIN of water depths, but the interpolation doesn't cover the same region as the underlying points (see <span style='color:#1F497D'>attached graphic</span>). The results I do get seem accurate (deeper red points are at southern edge of grid), but are only partially what I need. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>After specifying the interpolation attribute (Depth), the output section of the interpolation plugin displays the default number of columns and rows (300 for each). The Cellsize X is specified as 0.00001 (I think because my longitude data is to five decimal places). So I left number of columns and Cellsize X as 300 and 0.00001, respectively. The number of rows is also specified as 300, but the Cellsize Y was initially specified as 0.00000, which not surprisingly yielded nothing for the interpolation. So next time, I changed the Cellsize Y value to 0.00001 to match Cellsize X. This automatically changed the number of rows to 139. Could this be because the spread of my data is from 61.1201 to 61.1215 degrees North, which would be 140 times 0.00001? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>I'm using QGIS 2.18.11. I am confused about why the interpolation doesn't cover all the sample points. I have tried changing the values for X and Y min and max (making them larger than the actual data range), but this only serves to place the interpolated result OUTSIDE the sample points, so I don't think that is the solution either. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Can anybody provide some guidance on where I'm going wrong here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:40.5pt'><td width=299 valign=top style='width:224.1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:40.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tad Deshler<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Coho Environmental LLC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>206.778.9274<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:tad.deshler@cohoenvironmental.com">tad.deshler@cohoenvironmental.com</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="cohoenvironmental.com">cohoenvironmental.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=130 height=65 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D38862.CF2B4B90" alt="Logo-very small"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>