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"Marcel Kuijper" <zoepetier_nothing_here@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 01:06:35 +0200, Oskar Wagner wrote:
>
>> Ohh yesssssss! For the moment I would be happy to achieve my goal of
>> drawing
>> FLATTENED and ACCURATELY ELEVATED lakes on my project of "Swiss-Lakes"
>> with
>> the help of SlartiBartFast......
>> I'm afraid there's still a lot that I don't know - yet.....
)))))) (or
>> maybe too much to learn....d**n, I'm getting old....)
>
> SlartiBartFast? As in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"??
>
> Well you've certainly got your work cut out for you.
> But I guess if someone gets fed up enough with the poor scenery in their
> home-area one could find a way, and the necessary amount of energy to do
> something about it. I'm surprised no one has cleaned it up already.
> Where do yo start with such a project?
> Can you really use actual geographical data to fix it?
>
>
> If I had the skill, and the time, I would clean up Amsterdam and make it
> look right. Not just the buildings and roads and such, but actually clean
> up the mesh. The first thing I would to is get rid of that ridiculous
> crevis behind the Rijksmuseum. It looks like a plane crashed there!
>
> Good luck on that project.
>
> --
>
> Marcel
> (Chance favours the prepared mind.)
Yes, the name of the program is derived from "Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy" as the author states ;-)
I actually use digital swiss geographical data on Lago's 38m mesh. But to be
honest it sometimes needs manual adjustment as even the mesh is (of course)
not always 100% accurate. Furthermore I'm just struggling to get "my" lakes
flattened and as long as this part of the project is not working it's just a
no-go. At the moment I defined a set of 72 lakes but this figure may be
changed as the project moves on.... ;-)
--
Oskar
(retired captain)
Remember, in the great scheme of things, we're all small potatoes...