On samedi 17 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote:
> Brian Schack wrote:
> > There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both
> > running NS and EW.  I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that
> > the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls:
>
> The underlying SRTM elevation data is known to have many voids in the
> Himalayan area and a reasonable explanation _might_ be that the void
> filling in TerraGear doesn't provide too realistic results.
> For your own experience, you'll find a copy of the respective elevation
> raster here as a geo-referenced 1x1 degree TIFF image:
>
>  
> ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/SRTM/version2/GeoTIFF/Eurasia/N28
>E083.tif
>
> Note that these images have a 16-bit grayscale channel, therefore
> simple "visual debugging" on a typical PC screen might be quite tricky
> due to limited colour depth. In order to get a better clue about the
> reported errors I'd consider it as being highly desirable looking at a
> similar error at a place which is located at a much lower elevation.
>
> Cheers,
>       Martin.
Because of some reason i mostly do use the old FG 0.9.8  scenery
I have flown over Himalaya mountains looking for hole, wall or flat part , 
nothing.  :)  only mountains  :)

here snapshots of the Everest
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/f16-everest_1.jpg
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/f16-everest_2.jpg

So older data were right.

Cheers
-- 
Gérard
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/

J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. 
Voltaire


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