Hi, does anyone know which files holds the extent coord. of the BIL format from the USGS seamless application (seamless.usgs.gov)? I don't care about...
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Thatcher Ulrich
waltertulrich
Feb 2, 2003 3:05 pm
... I think it's the .BLW file. According to http://www.fsl.orst.edu/helpdesk/gis/usgs_doqq.html , the values in that file are: x pixel dimension translation...
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Stephan Heigl
steve@...
Feb 2, 2003 3:55 pm
... Thanks for the link. But then i wonder what the .STX file is for, mine for the Mt. Hood region looks like this: 1 688 3420 1365.5 391.1 regards, Stephan...
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melt_ca <mmartin@....
melt_ca
Feb 3, 2003 7:55 pm
Hi I am having a difficulty finding how to build texture files for VTP. I have both a DEM and Lansat data for a project area. Using an older build of VTBuilder...
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marius_schilder <m...
marius_schilder
Feb 3, 2003 8:15 pm
Before i start writing one, does anyone have a simple tool to resample such a BIL into a UTM 30 meter grid? marius...
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Frank Warmerdam
nfwarmer
Feb 3, 2003 8:19 pm
... Marius, I haven't been following this discussion closely, but the gdal_translate utility can be used to translate ESRI BIL files to different resolutions ...
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Peter Guth
pguth@...
Feb 3, 2003 8:20 pm
MICRODEM can do the reprojection from Lat/Long to UTM. It would prefer that you download the data as a Geotiff. Since USGS changed the format of the BIL, I...
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Michael Flaxman
mflaxman
Feb 3, 2003 9:44 pm
Monty, You need to clip and convert your Landsat data to an image with the exact same extent as your full terrain. You will need either a .BMP or .JPG file. ...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 3, 2003 10:27 pm
Marius, Frank and Peter have pointed out that GDAL and MicroDEM can do the task of converting and cropping the BIL file. I'd like to add that VTBuilder will ...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 3, 2003 10:33 pm
Monty and Mike, One correction. Image Layers in VTBuilder aren't yet fully functional. Their current purpose is to load and display GeoTIFF files as reference...
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Harri Lilja
harri.lilja@...
Feb 4, 2003 7:41 am
Hi, does anyone know a free conversion program, which could read USGS DEM in and write it out as 16 heightfield surface like *.TGA. Have tried Wilbur and it...
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Vasile Craciunescu
vasile35
Feb 4, 2003 9:23 am
Harri, i think the dem2tga7 write by John Childs (www.terrainmap.com/rm3.html#dem) may help you. Regards, Vasile ... ...
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Michael Flaxman
mflaxman
Feb 5, 2003 6:12 am
Chan, I'll answer to the list, in case others sooner or later run into the same questions. 1. How to get procedural building heights from GIS. The importer...
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dan ancona
da2012
Feb 5, 2003 11:16 pm
Hi folks, I'm working up a proposal for some VTP related work, and I've hit a few snags with both elevation and imagery while putting together a demo. I...
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Peter Guth
pguth@...
Feb 6, 2003 12:38 am
The California DRGs use a screwey projection different from all other DRGs in the country. Some would say it's documented, but because it's an oddball I would...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 6, 2003 5:50 pm
Hi Dan, ... VTBuilder doesn't handle DRGs (yet). BExtractor does. I believe the documentation says this, i'll check them to make sure. ... I presume you...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 7, 2003 1:05 am
I cleaned up Dan's Santa Barbara elevation data a bit - put the ocean at elevation 0, and filled in the undefined areas. The result, as a 4k*4k BT file ready...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 7, 2003 8:04 am
I've uploaded a new VTP release to the usual place. Existing Windows end-users can grab executables from here: ...
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Kai Fischer <fisch...
vistree2
Feb 7, 2003 12:43 pm
Hi group, I installed the new version of VTP and all necessary dll's. Reopening my current project, I noticed that the texture of my 3ds-files is missing...
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vtp@yahoogroups.com
Feb 7, 2003 12:45 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the vtp group. File :...
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dan ancona
da2012
Feb 7, 2003 5:17 pm
Well that's farily spectacular! Definitely a good starting point for me. I wasn't sure if the data was in feet either, but that's definitely scaled up. I...
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Michael Flaxman
mflaxman
Feb 7, 2003 5:45 pm
Dan, The projection and georeferencing info can be held in tags within the geotiff, but these get wiped by Photoshop, etc. However, the gdal utilities can be...
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Roger James
rogerjames99
Feb 7, 2003 6:42 pm
Dan, If you convert your bitmap into a tif (or if it is one already) then there is a tool called GeoRef on my website that you can use to georeference it. ...
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dan ancona
da2012
Feb 7, 2003 9:41 pm
This may be a different problem, but I've now tried converting my DRGs & DOQQs to bitmaps and just loading them straight in Enviro, and I'm getting black...
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Ben Discoe
bdiscoe
Feb 12, 2003 12:49 am
There's been some large discussions going on off-list which probably belong here... One level of internationalization is simply to support non-ANSI characters ...
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Michael Flaxman
mflaxman
Feb 12, 2003 1:58 am
Ben and list, Actually several side conversations, which I'll try to summarize and split up. 1) Error reporting 2) Internationalisation 3) 3D building...
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Michael Flaxman
mflaxman
Feb 12, 2003 2:21 am
The internationalisation thread got rolling when I suggested that error reporting be set up so as to - eventually - support multilingual error messages. I...
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Chris 'Xenon'...
xenonofarcticus
Feb 12, 2003 5:19 pm
... I will summarize Visual Nature Studio's approach to this, which I think we put a lot of thought into and has proven flexible for most user data we've...
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mrled
mrled@...
Feb 13, 2003 4:12 pm
Ben, Where do I have to make the association between the point shapefile and the building model file (3DMAX , for example)? Enviro or VTBuilder? And how do I...
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mflaxman <mflaxman...
mflaxman
Feb 13, 2003 5:44 pm
Diogo, See my prior post on the topic:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vtp/message/1833 If still not clear, ask again Mike...
