<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Have you tried Terraintool?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">quote</span></font></div><div><font size="2">I've recently developed an application to create terrain data for Survex from the results of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Coverage is >99% of the land mass between 60 degrees North and 56 degrees South - with the missing bits mostly being in mountaneous areas where steep faces were shadowed from the oblique radar by surrounding peaks.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">The tool lets you select a rectangular area in a variety of coordinate systems (OSGB, Irish Grid, UTM, Lambert Coordinates, Austrian grid...) and saves the result as a .svx Survex data file. It's written in Java and should run OK on Windows, Linux, Solaris etc. If anyone's interested in playing with it you can download it from<a href="http://uk.geocities.com/mikemccombe@btinternet.com/terraintool.htm">http://uk.geocities.com/mikemccombe@btinternet.com/terraintool.htm</a> You'll also find some installation instructions and driving instructions.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">Best regards,</font></div><div><font size="2">Mike</font></div><div><font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">unquote</span></font> </div>-- <br>Survex <a href="http://lists.survex.com/mailman/listinfo/survex">http://lists.survex.com/mailman/listinfo/survex</a></span><br><div><div>On 12 Jul 2009, at 11:00, <a href="mailto:therion-request@speleo.sk">therion-request@speleo.sk</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:09:40 +1200<br>From: "Bruce Mutton" <<a href="mailto:bruce.mutton@paradise.net.nz">bruce.mutton@paradise.net.nz</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Therion] Google Earth terrain model<br>To: "'List for Therion users'" <<a href="mailto:therion@speleo.sk">therion@speleo.sk</a>><br>Message-ID: <1F4C18599AC54E418B97157105730B60@JUICEBRAIN><br>Content-Type: text/plain;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Thomas<br>As far as I can tell there is no Windows interpreter that will run<br>applescript. One would need to write an equivalent script in a Windows<br>compatible language I think.<br><br>Stelios' approach seems to be more straight forward, except that I have not<br>being able to decipher vtopo and gensur. I stumbled my way through the<br>French language to install it and eventually view vtopo in English, but<br>gensur is always it French it seems. That stopped me.<br><br>Wolfgang has posted a reasonably comprehensive means to get a terrain model.<br>I will try it eventually. <a href="http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=ifl">http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php?id=ifl</a> <br><br>Bruce<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [<a href="mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk">mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk</a>] On Behalf<br>Of <a href="mailto:thomasschilter@bluewin.ch">thomasschilter@bluewin.ch</a><br>Sent: Saturday, 11 July 2009 5:14 a.m.<br>To: <a href="mailto:therion@speleo.sk">therion@speleo.sk</a><br>Subject: Re: [Therion] Google Earth terrain model<br><br>Hello<br>Does anyone with a Windows machine? Did someone perhaps the Google Earth<br>script by Martin reprogrammed? Or what other <br>options there are? Unfortunately I have no idea about the program. <br><br>Best regards<br>Thomas<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Therion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Therion@speleo.sk">Therion@speleo.sk</a><br>http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion<br><br><br>End of Therion Digest, Vol 44, Issue 9<br>**************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dave Clucas</div><div><a href="mailto:dave@daveclucas.com">dave@daveclucas.com</a></div><div><a href="http://daveclucas.com">http://daveclucas.com</a></div><div><a href="http://mycaves.org">http://mycaves.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>