Amazing...thanks very much for posting this and have some rep. I can see myself using it when I want to make a real world map.
Amazing...thanks very much for posting this and have some rep. I can see myself using it when I want to make a real world map.
Yup, I have had visions of doing stuff like this....just never knew how though.
Thanks vehrka, have some rep
Got a question for you....are these progs free and where do you get them?
I looked through Google Earth (basic, no add-ons) and couldn't come up with those tiles...What am I missing?
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@Korash: Those programs are not only free, but open source, you can download them as a pack with FWTools (you have the link in the first post, click on FWTools). For Google Earth you have to download the KMZ file (again click on the link in point 1)
Thanks for the rep guys!
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vehrka
Yup, figured that out and downloaded after I asked. I tried it out but am having trouble with the gdalinfo command = are you supposed to put the entire path to the file you are looking at? what is the "_rer" for? do we need to put it inthe file name?put the path before or after the "-hist"?
I am stuck here.
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Hello Korash!
The "_rer" is just stuck to the name to diferenciate the input file and the output file, there was an error in the naming in step 4 I was using mosaico_re.tif instead of mosaico.tif, I've edited the post and hope it is clearer now.
I usually run the commands in the same directory where the image files are, so there is no need for incluiding the entire path to the file when you run the command.
Hope this helps!
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vehrka
DOH!
the ol' "/cd" command....
should have remembered that....
Please forgive an old timer who hasn't touched DOS since school and never before that
much clearer now thanks muchly. I will try this again this weekend.
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Well that works quite nicely!!
I have attached a map of the Falkland Islands that I generated with this method in about 5 minutes after completing these steps outlined above. I ran the generated height field as a bump map 3 times to get the higher mountains.
The res is not all that great 'cause when I opened the file in gimp it was set at 72 px. I cropped it in Gimp because I didn't have the coords on hand to do in FWtools, but I think that it shows the value of using the method none the less
Repped and 5 rated by me at least
:edit: need to spread the love some more before I can rep you again. Sorry.
Last edited by Korash; 05-08-2009 at 11:46 PM.
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