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1 Oct 2024 09:24:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: High resolution world-map  
From: Alan
Date: 27 Aug 2000 17:29:13
Message: <39a98829@news.povray.org>
Finding a *good* altitude map of the earth is something I've never managed
to do, but places where you might like to look for hints and tips include:


http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/

Maps of the Solar System
http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/

Planetary Image Maps:
http://www.jht.cjb.net/
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/thomasc1/render/maps.htm

Good luck.

Alan.



news:39A98641.210E1A66@club-internet.fr...
> I'd like to use  the isosurface feature by using an image_map as a
> 'normal'  to get a height_field on a sphere.
>
> I have been looking for 2 map of the world : One for the shape of the
> oceans and continents, the other is for the function to deform the
> sphere. So far no success. I got a lot of 'DEM' sites and maps with a
> lot of prints on them, but none with nothing but geographical pictures
> on them.
>
> Does anyone know where I could get high resolutions maps of the pictures
> I enclosed ? I got these from a CD.
>
> Thanks
>
> Fabien
>


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