FAQ
Where can I download DTMs?
Can you recommend some good QGIS plugins?
- If you work with raster files, use the Value Tool.
- the 3D-view of QGIS is rather buggy in our experience, for terrains better to use qgis2threejs
Useful software for the course
- QGIS: QGIS3 has a rudimentary 3D viewer that could be useful, but QGIS2 is also perfectly fine for the course
- GDAL utilities: to process rasters (included with QGIS)
- CloudCompare: to view/edit/process point clouds
- Blender and BlenderGIS: to view DTM and render them beautifully
Useful libraries for the course
- startin: a Delaunay triangulator for the modelling of terrains (Python)
- simplaz: A Python package to read LAZ files (LAS too)