Did you ever want gdal_contour to produce polygons instead of lines?
I made a small Perl program that uses the Perl bindings to GDAL and
which converts the lines into polygons. The polygons represent "plates"
of equal elevation and thus overlap. The polygons are stored into a new
layer in such an order that ordered rendering of them produces a nice
visualization. Visualization is my main goal here - I want to get a
similar effect as in some weather forecasts. However, transparency does
not work as expected in standard viewers because of overlapping
polygons. Here's an example created from DEM:
http://map.hut.fi/files/misc/contour_polygons.png
The code is also at http://map.hut.fi/files/misc/
I found this by googling:
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/fwtools/2005-November/000199.html
I wonder what's the current situation. Does GRASS do this?
Cheers,
Ari
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