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

[Siki Zoltan]

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
>