Does anyone have a simple work-flow for drawing cross sections of earth features in QGIS?
My thing is that QGIS is being used to present the plan view, but we have a little interest in some elevations as well. All the data is one set and is simply an elevation value in the attribute table, I don't want to have to move all that to CAD.
One logical workaround is to present the z value as the y.
I am a dunce in paper space in CAD, and would be more comfortable with the QGIS Composer.
Best Answer
First you have to use a DEM, then you have to have installed the terrain profile plugin. Once is active, all you have to do is draw a line over your DEM and the plugin will calculate the profile. A nice thing is that you can play with the vertical exaggeration and also that you can export the profile as a PDF. A minor thing is that the drawing tool of the plugin only allows you trace a straight line...Git it a try!