RE: the tool I wish for more than anything

["Crispen, Bob" <Robert.Crispen@HSV.Boeing.com>]

> Jeff Sonstein[SMTP:jeffs@tlg.net] sez:
> 
> the tool I wish for more than anything
> is one which would let me slice up a DEM
> 
> A "Realworld" Example:
> 
> I have some hypertext I maintain about Bosnia-Herzegovina
> (http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/BosniaHerzegovina/)
> and one of the documents talks about cultural geography
> and uses 2D maps to try to make a couple of points
> which could be made sooooo much easier with a VRML map...
> but the area overlaps the corners of 4 DEMs
> totalling probably around 100Mb
> and I don't want to have to serve up most of Europe
> and a big hunk of Asia
> just to show Southeastern Europe ;}
> 
Wouldn't it be loverly to have a collection of DEMs
and have a program you could enter with coordinates
(and perhaps LOD) and out would come the points
from the appropriate DEMs as an ElevationGrid?
A little trickier would be generating the appropriate
texture (you'd probably want to turn the textures
into PNMs first).  But neither one of these is beyond
the reach of computer science -- it's just a DP
problem.

In fact, do they not do that for Virtual Croatia?

Hmmm.  Back to you in a bit.

Bob Crispen
bob.crispen@boeing.com