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tilezen / joerd

Joerd can be used to download, merge and generate tiles from digital elevation data
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opening .hgt.gz files in QGIS #212

Closed momentmal closed 1 year ago

momentmal commented 1 year ago

This is somewhat of a edge case scenario, but maybe someone can help:

I've been using Blender OSM a lot for personal GIS test projects and built a greater local database of SRTM tiles (named N00E000, file ending: .hgt.gz) which i tend to reuse to avoid multiple redownloads. (I assume Blender OSM is using joerd for requesting needed terrain tiles, but I don't know for sure)

Is there a way to also import the same .hgt.gz files into QGIS? Would be nice to avoid redownloading SRTM data in a different format (but probably same information) and to explore alternative workflows for visualizing height data.

momentmal commented 1 year ago

/update: nevermind, found out i just need to unzip the .gz files with 7zip, then QGIS reads the data in perfectly fine.