On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:00:28 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Am 17.01.2011 20:45, schrieb Carlo C.:
>> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>>> Am 17.01.2011 15:59, schrieb Nekar Xenos:
>>>> It would be wonderful if we could use .dem and .hgt formats for
>>>> heightfields as these are the native file formats for terrain data.
>>>
>>> Do you have a source for file format documentation? A (not necessarily
>>> complete) list of software that generates files in this format might be
>>> interesting, too.
>>
>> This, about USGS DEM:
>>
>> http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/acrodocs/dem/
>
> As far as I understand, the format stores data in a non-rectangular  
> format, which will make it pretty difficult for use in height fields.

So I guess we need to ad a request for spherical heightfields as well :)

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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