[Qgis-user] FW: Newbie question - profile tool

[Alister Hood]

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bis Nulama <bisnulama at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello to everybody! I am a new qgis user (I am running qgis 1.7.4 on 
> windows XP) I'm sorry if the same questions has been already answered 
> somewhere else in this ML...
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> I am using the grass plugin. I would like to get the profile of a 
> street (I have the shapefile of it) from a digital elevation map.
> The profile should be a table of numbers in which I have on the x axis 
> the chainage and on the y axis the elevation.
> The output could also be a dxf image file... Is this possible?
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> I also would like to display the legend of raster maps in my layout, 
> but I do not understand how to do this...
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> Thank you for your help!
>
> laura

I guess that raster legends are only supported in QGIS Master (i.e. the latest development code).  If you want you can install this using the OSGeo4W installer, but it is not guaranteed to be stable.  However, these legends are only really suitable for indexed rasters (or whatever they are called).

For typical rasters showing something like elevation you would instead want to use the "1-band raster colour table" and "Colour scale bar" plugins.  I think someone may have mentioned the other day that the functionality of the "Colour scale bar" plugin is now included in the "1-band raster colour table" plugin.

Alister