> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > * Jon Stockill -- Friday 01 August 2003 01:41: > > > * On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > > London cries for a Big Ben ... > > > > > > That's the wrong end of the country :-) > > > > Yeah, but where you live you probably don't need landmarks. It's > > the boring flat land that needs them, like big towns. (I'm not from > > Vienna, either. :-) > > Sadly until the DEM gets a bit of an upgrade an awful lot of > the country > is rather flat - there's just not enough detail. > Agreed, even the lumpy bits of the UK (Pennines etc) are pretty flat compared to the middle of continental Europe. I have considered trying to extract higher resolution DEM-like data from OS maps by scanning the maps and doing some image analysis (tracing the contour lines and roads etc), but it is a daunting task, and probably illegal too.
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