the best i've found is MicroDEM:
http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdem.htm

there are also DOS programs like DEM2TGA (C code available i
believe).  this web page has some good info.:
http://www.terrainmap.com/rm3.html

and then there is this web site to check:
http://software.geocomm.com/

-- 

"Peter Hertel" <peter@(NOSPAM)hertel.no> wrote in message
news:404f1111$1@news.povray.org...
> Hi
> I've been looking for a high resoultion height field which
includes the
> middle of norway (more exactly, the mountains around Molde,
south of
> Trondheim). See a map of the location here:
>
http://www.gulesider.no/gsi/map.do?n=&mode=&size=2&cb=cz&c=s&cm=&v=&bkode=&d
>
rill=&showCompanies=false&firma=&clickX=238&clickY=178&msa=m1&x=
6.743208&y=6
> 2.60207&id=&startId=&finishId=&spraak=1&oldZoom=2
>
> I haven't found any images with high enough resolution, but
perhaps DEM maps
> could be of some use?
>
> The question is, how do I convert DEM maps to a height_field?
>
> Christoph Hormann did an image of Hawaii, using STRM data (
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/gallery4.html ).
Might that be
> a solution?
>
> I've seen some programs which reads DEM files, but they are
rather expensive
> (1500$ IIRC) :)
>
> -Peter
>
>

Post a reply to this message