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2007.01.17 19:27 "Re: Elevation Data", by Frank Warmerdam
Joris wrote: > In any case, when it comes to a recommendation for writers, would you > agree that recommending them to stick with the 'intrinsic' range of the > samples, as I explained it, is best and most likely to lead to good > interchange (as far as there is interchange of floating point image > data, at all)? floating point *elevation* data! rescaling in the file to some "natural image range" loses all the value of the actual elevations. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org