QGIS now includes a native elevation profile plotting tool.
The tool includes the following features:
Interactive navigation of the plot canvas is supported using the standard QGIS pan/zoom shortcuts, such as:
Shortcuts are available for nudging the elevation profile curve left and right, which allows users to "scrub" the curve across the map frame and find the optimal profile line. The step distance is set to match the chart's tolerance distance, so that a single step will result in a different set of point and point cloud features shown in the chart.
Keyboard shortcuts for nudging are:
For more information on this awesome feature and framework, be sure to watch the QGIS Elevation Profiles Deep Dive presentation on YouTube.
This feature was funded by Crowdfunding for raster and point clouds improvements
This feature was developed by Nyall Dawson (North Road Consulting)