On October 2, 2008 04:05:04 pm Martin Spott wrote: > Ok, apparently my response got lost - again .... so, here's my second > attempt: > > gerard robin wrote: > > Well, i thought that costline was calculated with the intersection of > > the sea level (or water level) and the ground altitude. > > I was wrong, my imagination was (is) out of reality. :) > > No you're correct. The point is: Automagically calculating the > intersection of terrain with sea level is unreliable because a) the > elevation data is too inaccurate and b) tides make a huge difference - > which also adds to a).
Since we have multiple data, could we somehow apply a Kalman filter in such a way so as to come up with a good approximation for the coastlines? Ampere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
