Hi Gerd

I've come to the same conclusion looking  and was quite confused when Frank introduced his dem builder:

I too noticed  the tdb DEM flag was always set eventhough there was no dem.

Nick


On 11/01/2018 08:03, Gerd Petermann wrote:
Hi all,

the help says
--show-profiles=1
        Sets a flag in tdb file which marks set mapset as having contour
        lines and allows showing profile in MapSource. Default is 0
        which means disabled.

I've tried this with MapSource. My findings:
The option is not related to contour lines, those are always displayed and 
height is shown when you select one.
I found two effects of show-profiles=1:
1) The button "Show Profile..." in the Route Properties popup is enabled even 
if no DEM data is available.
Without DEM data this button is of no use, the displayed profile is a straight 
line at height 0.
2) With DEM data available Mapsource displays the height in the status line 
when you hover over a hill-shaded area
with valid data.

The button "Show Profile..." in the Route Properties popup is always enabled 
when DEM data is available.

My conclusion:
The option is useless without DEM data and with DEM data it should default to 
--show-profiles=1

In other words: I think the option should be removed and the flag should be set 
depending on the DEM data.

Comments?
Gerd
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