Martin,
no sure if this license will be an issue but this is the free 250K
topo's from ga.gov.au
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On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:20 +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> Jason Cox wrote:
>
> > I used FGSD to move VMAP to what I had from a digitised map and I wrote
> > a little script to pull the topo contours and change the elevations from
> > a mapinfo file (plain text database).
> > I guess now that I can do the land cover directly from my shapefiles all
> > I need is to modify the elevations based on the shapefile topo data.
>
> Yup, editing land cover shapefiles should be pretty straightforward -
> at least several people are doing this, using QGIS, OpenJUMP or GRASS.
>
> BTW, if the copyright of the map permits public dustribution of the
> digitized data (I know, most maps don't), we'd be happy to include this
> into our world coverage. Look here for one sample of digitized, well,
> satellite imagery we're including into FlightGear's World Scenery:
>
>
> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-156.34932&lat=20.76679&zoom=11&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFTFFF
>
> .... or this one, just finished (thanks to John Holden and Chris
> Schmitt):
>
>
> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-73.37928&lat=40.77091&zoom=10&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFTFFF
>
> Editing elevation is much more difficult. In theory, you could edit the
> SRTM raster input and hope that TerraGear will leave the most prominent
> edits in place. The implementation of a TerraGear feature to override
> the elevation raster from a set of elevation contour lines in a certain
> area is still awaiting to happen.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
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