Hillshading with QGIS
Every day being a QGIS user and developer brings a new surprise. Even more so since the python language bindings were introduced to allow people to write plugins easily. Today Andreas Plesch popped a note to the dev list saying he had created a plugin for hill shading. I often like to use a hill shaded relief map as a backdrop to provide context for map data. Now it is easy to do in QGIS. Here is a little example:
The plugin is available from the python plugin manager…here’s looking forward making lots of beautiful relief maps!
September 19th, 2009 in
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