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In a planar coordinate system, three coordinates that locate a point by its distance from an origin (0,0,0) where three orthogonal axes cross. Usually, the x-coordinate is measured along the east–west axis, the y-coordinate is measured along the north–south axis, and the z-coordinate measures height or elevation.

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How to use XYZ tiles from zoom 11 to a higher zoom

I have generated my own map tiles for zoom 11 (only). I display these tiles in QGIS via XYZ tiles (as a new connection - file:///D:/tiles/11/{x}/{y}.png). They show up fine for the zoom 11. However, I ...
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QGIS Generate XYZ tiles from bluemarble - result is garbage

I am trying to learn QGIS and working with tiled maps. I have downloaded blue marble files from nasa (8 files 21600 x 21600 that span the entire earth), combined them into one tiff via GDAL, as well ...
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Extracting elevation profile from CSV containing XYZ data

I am new to GIS software. I have XYZ data in a text file (delimited text). The data is XY in 1m spacing, approx. 12km x 900m of data. I want to find the elevation profile from a XY path. In QGIS, i ...
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Why QGIS removes the XYZ Tile Connection Referer?

In QGIS when i make a XYZ Tile connection with a referer, QGIS removes the referer! Why? See animated gif:
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Batch import .xyz files in QGIS

I have about 200 .xyz files I want to import into my QGIS project. I've tried using this answer https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/310415 but haven't been able to make it work. I'm getting this exec(Path(...
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A minimalistic Python\Java library for HOSTING WMS content

Colleagues of mine have developed an algorithm that, given a bunch of parameters, outputs a colormap. The initial version was integrated as a QGIS plugin. However now we need to create an ArcGIS ...
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Fix gaps in xyz tile basemap with QGIS

I'm making a map and want to use the Stamen terrain background basemap because it looks good. The issue is that there are a number of tiles that appear to be missing at the higher resolution (i.e. ...
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QGIS XYZ to 3D coloured contoured surface [closed]

I am using QGIS. I have XYZ data in a CSV file. I want to show it as a 3D surface that is contoured (every 10’) and is coloured between contours. The z data is below sea level so negative. I can ...
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How to generate XYZ tiles in QGis with extent?

I have a huge mbtile of my country. I have marked only roads from this file in my QGis project. Now I'm trying to export only data related to a boundary(the city I live in). So in the extent I put my ...
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QGIS XYZ tile showing up distorted

See image, particularly with the text. Why would this be happening?
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How to eliminate the gap in OpenLayers within the canvas for EPSG:4326 projection

I'm using XYZ tiles with EPSG:4326 projection but tiles originally comes with EPSG:3857. For 3857 when I set the width and height to both 1000px there is no gaps and the tiles get filled up properly. ...
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Export LAS file to XYZ and retain RGB values

I am currently trying to import LAZ LIDAR data into ArchiCAD (a 3D modeling software) for an architectural project. Using QGIS 3.22.11 and LAStools las2txt I have successfully exported the LAZ file as ...
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How to use gdal to generate overview tiles from existing zoom level 21 tiles?

I have multiple PNGs in a quadkey format for zoom level 21, for example: 023012311121232233120.PNG 023012311121232233121.PNG 023012311121232233122.PNG 023012311121232233123.PNG etc.. I used ...
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Inconsistencies between xyz images in Mapbox and raster

I have a 5m raster that I want to show on Mapbox. Using gdal2tiles.py I created the xyz images and am serving them from s3 up to zoom level 18. The idea is that the user should be able to click on a ...
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Display raster from GeoServer through OpenLayers using "xyz"

I'm trying to display some raster images hosted from GeoServer using OpenLayers. Following this example from OpenLayers website, it seems I could achieve it by consume the data through "xyz" ...
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Mistakenly deleted OSM found on XYZ Tiles in QGIS Browser

I mistakenly deleted OSM found on XYZ Tiles how can I reset or restore it I tried to reinstall plugins but its not coming out even if I uninstall my software and download another one I can't find the ...
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PyQGIS generate WMS service description XML for TMS service

I am currently writing a QGIS Plugin, for which i require a WMS service description XML file for the currently selected layer (as long as it is a XYZ layer), like this one for OSM. At least i think I ...
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Seeking Python module to find volume of xyz data [closed]

I have an xyz file in the following format: 720567.698,733950.021,-4.20 720567.698,733949.021,-4.04 720567.698,733948.021,-3.86 720567.698,733947.021,-3.68 720567.698,733946.021,-3.45 720567.698,...
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Tiles XYZ plugin for newer versions of QGIS

I was wondering if anyone knows what replaced Tiles XYZ for newer versions of QGIS, as I cannot find it when I search for plugins and when I try and install it via zip file it says it only works with ...
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Merge XYZ Files: "ERROR 1: Attempt to create 6961x-8398 dataset is illegal, sizes must be larger than zero."

So I am trying to merge 200+ XYZ files to one Raster-layer. And i get the following Exception: 2022-05-01T14:18:23 INFO gdal_merge.bat -n -398.0 -ot Float32 -of GTiff -o C:/Users/magni/AppData/...
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Converting XYZ file to shapefile using Python

I have numerous XYZ files, which aren't gridded and I'd like to use Python to convert them to shapefiles. I'm not quite sure how to go about this?
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How to constrain a triangulation within a border (polygon/shapefile)?

I have a bunch of XYZ data and I want to triangulate a surface with them. Easy enough. "create TIN", select my shapefile with the XYZ data and let ArcMap do the rest. However, I need to ...
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OpenStreetMap not displaying on my printed maps from QGIS?

I can't figure out the why of when I do a map off my QGIS work while using OpenStreetMap as background map with XYZ Tiles, it simply doesn't get printed while everything else gets printed as expected. ...
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Show map tiles made in MapTiler in OpenLayers?

I converted GeoTIFF to png-tiles using MapTiler. Here is the folder structure: Now I'm trying to add this folder with png-tiles to OpenLayers as XYZ source: var layer = new ol.layer.Tile({ ...
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Setting specific colors transparent in XYZ-Tile-Layer using QGIS

I need to set one (several) color(s) in an XYZ-Layer to "transparent" in QGIS. When using a "Raster Layer" in QGIS I'm able to define specific colors as transparent via "...
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gdal_grid not recognising .xyz file

I'm trying to use GDAL, specifically gdal_grid to grid an xyz dataset. However when I run my command I am getting the error ERROR 4: `C:\Users\Public\clip.xyz' not recognized as a supported file ...
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Combining 2 XYZ datasets without overwriting original datasets using ArcGIS Pro

I have 2 datasets which I am using ArcGIS Pro to view and edit at the moment. Basically, dataset 2 is an xyz dataset which contains holes due to being single beam bathymetry data. Dataset 1 is another ...
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Infilling gaps of XYZ data consisting of no values with XYZ values of another dataset using GDAL

I have 2 sets of XYZ data. The first is this one: and the second is this: Evidently, the two XYZ datasets are 2 different surveys of the same area. What I am trying to do is take dataset 2 and fill ...
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How to get novalue data of xyz points

I have multibeam and single beam xyz points. I am looking to do the exact same process as Patch over raster A with values from raster B where raster A values are nodata in GDAL as I want to infill the ...
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Convert TIFF files to XYZ files with Lat Long and Depth with GDAL

I am hoping to get some advice on converting a GEO TIFF file to an XYZ File with Lat and Long positions instead of Northing and Easting positions. I am very new to GDAL, but I have been able to ...
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How to convert GPS altitude to other vertical reference systems?

I have GPS positions with altitude and I would like to convert this altitudes to a local vertical reference system. In my case I would like to convert it to DHHN92 (EPSG 5783). I probably want to ...
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Connecting points with Z values to lines where the Z values are retained in the nodes of the resulting line

I have interpreted seismic data as xyz-points (about 23 cm lateral resolution). They are not really ordered but rather a simple list of coordinates. One file contains multiple seismic "lines"...
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Translating GeoTIFF in XYZ using GDAL

I try translate GeoTIFF file which 2GB in XYZ with this code import os import numpy as np import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from osgeo import gdal path = 'D:\Temp\Work\Data\big_dem....
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OpenLayers 'wrapX' not working on ol.source.XYZ() source

I recently posted a question about a WMTS layer not appearing in my OpenLayers map, and the resolution turned out to be that I needed to add the 'wrapX' option (or otherwise to pan all the way around ...
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How to pick and export the deepest points of a DEM

I am trying to work out how I can pick and export (to XYZ) the deepest path of a DEM. I have a DEM surface (created from an 20cm XYZ file) where a straight line trench has been cut and I wish to pick ...
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Creating points with z value with Python in QGIS [duplicate]

I am a beginner in Python, and I would like to create points (and entities) with a Z value (x,y,z) in QGIS. I found this code, in order to create 4 points, but it is only (x,y) entities. I need to set ...
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How to efficiently load multiple tile layers with different XYZ sources in OpenLayers 6?

I need to add 60+ tile layers onto a map at once, each with a different XYZ source using MapGuide server. I'm able to do it, as shown below, but the performance is not ideal, because the way ...
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How to change a tms/xyz map projection?

I have the portion of a map stored as a collection of .jpg tiles in tms set of folders. The problem is that this particular set seems to have a WGS84 (EPSG 4326) projection, while my desired ...
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Trying to extract xyz from multipolygon shapefile

I want to extract the x, y and z from shapefile polygon vertices where the geometry is multipolygon. Once extracted would like to have them in a geopandas data frame. I have seen a couple of ...
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Extracting metadata like age and resolution from XYZ tilesets using PyQGIS

I'm using PyQGIS to develop a standalone application. I need to get metadata from the current visible tile, such as the age and resolution of the satellite image. Is this possible? It doesn't ...
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QGIS - Misaligned vector layers

I am using QGIS Version 3.16.4-Hannover and Windows 10 but I also tested on Linux Mint 20. I have a problem with several imported shapefiles from different sources. I do not know if I do something ...
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XYZ LiDAR data to contours with QGIS

I need to prepare a 1m contour map for an area with LiDAR data (XYZ files, in a 1m grid). The files are a little large and there are 54 of them. I merged the files to a single XYZ file (which turned ...
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More efficient processing of many XYZ tiles into a merged response

I've built a mobile mapping device for my Search & Rescue group using a Raspberry Pi (3b+) and its primary purpose is to serve a cache of XYZ tiles via its web server, over its WiFi network. The ...
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Text xyz coordinate import gives data that is not usable in QGIS [closed]

I am using QGIS to try and create a raster from 5m XYZ text point data. I imported using the tab delimited data function and points were created and located where I want them to be. I now want to ...
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My bathymetric sounder only exports to XYZ file want to input into GRASS

The export file has long, lat, elevation in a float format i.e. -70.8838319778442, 42.3222159164251, -14.6 The file is over 18 MB and each lat/long/elev is MOSTLY 1.5 meter apart and sometime maybe up ...
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I need to export DXFs with a certain Z value

How do I do that? Right now it says it's including a Z dimension but I don't know where to input it.
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Stopping FME TINGenerator processing unwanted nodes

I run an FME workbench quite often to convert .xyz point clouds to a LandXML TIN surface. I'm wondering if it is possible to stop the TINGenerator tool from processing the TINEdges, Triangles, and ...
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Geoserver XYZ tile service

I am a software developer, and have installed Geoserver to serve Links (Geojson) data in my application as image tiles to frontend. I have found TMS service of Geoserver which serve image tiles in {...
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Asking for the precise detail of gdal_translate's output .xyz multiband file format (when converting from GRIB)

gdal_translate is able to convert a multidimensional GRIB data file (Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis) with the following command-line command (gdal_translate.exe from 11/2016): gdal_translate source.grib ...
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Sharing WMS / XYZ / MapServer sources across multiple users / installations

Our organisation has multiple users using QGIS and using a lot of web-based ArcGIS mapserver / WMS data. At present we share links to WMS/WMTS, XYZ, ArcGIS Mapserver resources via Wiki, however it ...
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