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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 8 Jun 2006 15:50:03
Message: <e69uu0$mal$1@chho.imagico.de>

Sylvain wrote:
> Hello,
> thanks for the example file ! It is very interesting. I have quite a stupid
> question to ask though. For the elevation data, you use a "pgm" file.

The ETOPO2 data set used in the example can be easily converted to PGM 
by adding an appropriate header:

P5
10800 5400
65535

or using Imagemagick.  A lot of formats can also be converted using the 
GDAL tools.

Christoph

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