Visualization in QGIS

[wipfli]

Opening the osmviews.tiff file in QGIS shows all black with one white pixel at first:

steps

1. open QGIS
2. new project
3. Layer -> Add Layer -> Add raster layer...

[wipfli]

Take the logarithm to make it more visible what is going on:

steps

1. Raster -> Raster Calculator...
2. tick 'create on the fly..."
3. Use formula ln ("osmviews@1" + 1)

[wipfli]

Looks beautiful, like one of these night sky pictures...