[Qgis-user] How to probe raster values?

[Martin Dobias]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
>
>  I'm working on a plugin in Python and I can't find any way to read values (at
>  specified coordinates) from raster layers.
>
>  I've tried with "identify" method of QgsRasterLayer object, but it's
>  unavailable in my QGIS 0.10. Is this method depreciated, or only there is no
>  Python binding for it yet?
>
>  Is there any other way, or is that my time for switch to C? :)

Hi,

identify() method does exist, however it's not included in PyQGIS
because of use of std::map as an argument (which is currently
discouraged in favour of QMap). I'm affraid there's not other way in
Python to do read values from raster layer.

Martin