Eric,

  The program to do this is "Terrain Forge." You can make a black and white
bitmap as input, and then apply your color image on top of the mesh it
creates. I prefer color mapping the mesh myself, but it should work very
well. I'm afraid he neglected to put a URL in his program, but a web search
should come up with it.
  Now, you could help me! Let me know if you have any DEM files of Europe.
No, I know what's on the web. I need everything from the Arctic Circle to
Southern Libya, and Western Ireland to forty miles east of Moscow. Money is
a problem, so if it's not free well, I'll have to hack it I guess. :)
-- 
Paul Hinds
gri### [at] swbellnet

Eric Ringler <eri### [at] yanceymainncus> wrote in article
<34B### [at] yanceymainncus>...
> Greetings!
> 
> I am a cartographer interested in generating 3D rendered terrains draped
> with images of various sorts (maps, satellite imagery, aerial
> photographs, etc).  Although there are big $$$ commercial packages out
> there that claim to handle this, I'm not eager to spend the money to
> find out just how well they really work.  
>

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