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Offline ghostdancer

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Re: Creating Terrain
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2009, 03:47:18 PM »
Digital elevation. I am using a different site now for DEMs. Will post it when I get home since Earth Explorer can be bit a of a pain forcing you to down load each DEM seperately. The good thing about it is that it has DTED1 .. the other site I use has DTED0 but the files are zipped into 3 - 4 files (used that site for the New Britain and New Guinea terrains in progress) instead of downloading about 100 DTED1s individually.
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Re: Creating Terrain
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2009, 03:18:23 PM »
Sorry for the delay in getting this info for you. I also get DTED0 files from http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/. You have to setup an account there but the account is free. The file types you can get are DTED0, I am still looking for a good site that supplies DTED1 for various world areas that I am interested in.
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Re: Creating Terrain
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2009, 07:07:11 PM »
Thanks Sir!
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Re: Creating Terrain
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2009, 09:57:58 PM »
Now as I work with New Guinea and New Britain I have found that the DTED0 info for this area is not particularly exact. So I sort of developed a process of using the DEM greyscale created as a basis for making the land and water area in waterd.bmp. Basically I go to the appropriate area in google maps and zoom in (I forget the exact resolution). Then do a print screen and paste it into photoshop and recreate the coastlines more exactly from that.

I will try to write up my process of doinng this over the next couple of days.
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