Re: [RCSE] Topozone - IDEA!

2000-01-06 Thread Steven Bixby
What ifsince the maps I have seen use color differentiation to denote height..write a program to digitize the color information. Then write and algorithm to look for certain rapid differentiation's. Since color is stored as 3 types of color (varying amounts of red, blue, green) a rapid

Re: [RCSE] Topozone - IDEA!

2000-01-06 Thread Chuck Gadd
I think the maps on this site are in graphical format, which means at the least we'd have to write a very sophisticated program to analyze the graphical content to generate actual contour data, plus optical character recognition to read the altitude information, and separate out all of the