Yes DEM's are the ones that I am talking about.
The software we use here comes from SoftWright, I use it to do
coverage stuff at customers who are wanting to add mobile data
to their present voice systems, more than anything else to do a
sanity check on what they think the coverage is. I would like to
have something like that in LINUX, all that I have found out there
is in Windows or DOS...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Werner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 21:07
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Popagation analysis + Linux?
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:15:17PM -0500, Hast, Chuck wrote:
> > I for one would certainly be interested, we have where I work a
> > windows based software package that cost about $8k with the
> > whole 1 second database for the USA, PR and HI. I do not know
> > if you can use the tiger data base which is provided by the US
> > gov. or what you would use for the topo data, but I would really
> > be interested in such work
>
> You're talking about downloadable topographic information? If so:
> http://edc.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
> The USGS has available a file type called DEM (Digital Elevation Model)
> that can be used to generate topo maps. Dad uses 'em all the time - but
> he uses Windoze. I do remember seeing some Linux stuff that could use
> DEM's - kept meaning to grab one and give it a whirl.
>
> There's a few other file types available on that site as well - but I
> don't know what they are. I can try and pick Dad's brain about 'em
> next chance I get, if this seems to be the type of thing you're looking
> for.
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