David Pérez-Piñar López wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first submission to the list, but I've been around for a > while. Not sure if this ichs the correct list to post about this; if not, > please, let me know and accept my apologies. > > I've been able to successfully build FlightGear without much pain - just > a couple of tweaks, as I'm working on a Windows XP / Visual Studio 2005 > Express environment, and everything runs fine. > > However, I've tried also the TerraGear package, a completely different > story. My interest is not just to compile it, but to update my > FlightGear scenery with more accurate data. Specifically, I'm trying to > improve the terrain elevation data and the surface textures to make > them more realistic around my area of interest (north-west of Spain). > I've got elevation data from SRTM Data > (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp), which gives > you data for a relatively large area into one unique file. It's a very > convenient source, as they have already done the hard work for filling > voids with interpolated elevations. As this is not the same source > TerraGear is programmed for, I was planning to reprogram the file > interface section in order to adapt it to my source.
This page: http://topofusion.com/3d.php Has details on converting GeoTIFF files to USGS ASCII DEM files. Once converted you should be able to use demchop to process the resulting file. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
