Feature request, publish a QGIS plugin

[jo-chemla]

I've read from the docs this great OpenTopo/RiverREM CLI tool is built upon the methodology described by Dan Coe in Creating REMs post on the IDW method.

Would it make sense in addition to exposing it as a python script, to make a QGIS plugin (or Processing Toolbox algorithm) out of RiverREM that wraps the python script? Seems low-hanging fruit, and could simplify producing such REMs for any QGIS community user not familiar with the command line, based on the current implementation.

Most settings could probably be left default, and others could be controllable like

• selecting input DEM
• river centerline source: default to OSM longest river, could be user input vector layer first feature
• sampling distance could be customized
• exporting idw-interpolated water-surface elevation layer or not etc

[cjcrosby]

Good suggestion, thanks. Not sure we have the bandwidth at the moment to tackle it, but we've talked about building more QGIS plugins to connect to OT services, so we'll add this one to the list.

[jo-chemla]

Thanks for getting back and adding to the list of OpenTopography QGIS plugins, although there's no bandwidth for now!
This would be like closing the loop, circling back to the origins of RiverREM/Dan Coe workflow directly through QGIS!