Load a DEM into QGIS

[acrosome]

Ha! No luck with the Global Land 1-km Base Elevation Project data BUT... I found that GMTED2010 has even better data, at 7.5arcsec instead of 30arcsec. And I had no trouble importing and merging the files using Skalimoi's instructions here.

So, it all seemed to work... but now I can't find the damned output file! Grr.

But thanks, Redrobes. As always, you are a scholar and a gentleman. I tried to rep you, but I'm told that I have repped you too much already...

[woodb3kmaster]

So, it all seemed to work... but now I can't find the damned output file! Grr.

Unless you specify otherwise, QGIS normally outputs to a temporary scratch file. You can tell it to save the output to a file instead in the Merge options dialog, right above the "GDAL/OGR console call" text box. That text box should also tell you the location of your output file, even if it's a scratch file (those get sent to a folder in your AppData\Local\Temp folder if you're using Windows).