Contour Lines Extraction Based on Heat Map

Question

I've been playing with Mapbox's blog post about converting heat maps to contour lines, and I'm stuck at the extraction part of this process.

I used the CSV plugin to create a vector layer of points, then a heat map raster layer based on that, but I can't seem to be able to see the contour lines based on that raster layer after that. When I looked at the properties and selected categorized, it didn't seem to have any symbols listed.

I'm guessing this is probably some kind of type error since I had to create the raster layer based off of map units and not meters, but I don't know how to correct it. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Okey dokey. After the holiday weekend I figured it out.

It was basically a type error with the CRS. Although it's not explicitly stated, I got in touch with MapBox and found out they were working in Google Mercator. It's also a perfectly acceptable CRS to use when you eventually have to import the .shp file into MapBox/Tile Mill.