[wellylug] Possible project of interest? (LINZ vector topo data)

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri Dec 17 08:11:25 NZDT 2004


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Pete Black wrote:
> Just out of interest, how hard would it be to produce a detailed topographic 
> 'height field' of the wellington region e.g. where each pixel's height above 
> sea-level is encoded as a 16 or 32-bit 'grayscale' value, as opposed to the 
> false-colour shading you have in your example image?

Incidentally, that would be cool for the (non-Linux) game Simcity4 - 
allowing you to recreate Wellington City...

-- 
David.




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