[Qgis-user] Road design&more in QGIS

[Niccolò Marchi]

hi people,
I'm getting ready for a simple forest road planning project (line tracing - > creation of transversal sections every N meters -> extraction of the slope profile from DTM -> drawing of the road type section -> estimation of cut/fill volumes).
Being a GIS- more than a CAD-person, my first thought went to the plugin repository where I found GeoRoad (https://github.com/matheusfillipe/Topografia), probably an abandoned project -sigh-. With a really small effort I was able to update the code to make it installable: now there's the linguistic barrier (it's only in brazilian) to face, and all this only to know if it still works properly.

My actual alternative is to create a pipeline like:

  1.
road tracing
  2.
create cross section ("split lines by maximum length" + "transect")
  3.
extract elevation values (splitting transect into points and sampling the raster underneath)
  4.
export everything to a CAD sw (no autocad available...)

...or using ForestRoadDesign (for tracing) + setting up a Postgres environment to install riverGIS plugin (for the sections).

Did I miss something? Do you have any other qgis-based viable suggestion before investing lots of time in the first mentioned plugin?
Thanks in advance!

nic

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