Hi guys,
I've got Red Baron's 75m mesh (freeware). I was wondering if this is better in terms of appearance? I found it on Flightsim.com. Its called "New Zealand & Islands SRTM Mesh".
Cheers, SB
What is this NZ SRTM Mesh like?
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by HardCorePawn » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:56 am
I doubt you will find a better freeware NZ mesh than the old RedBaron 75m one...
Basically all the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) meshes use the same data... acquired by the Space Shuttle... so theoretically, will all be the same...
EXCEPT, the SRTM has lots and lots of "issues"... big spikes and sink holes where the radar signals were not reflected correctly... the RedBaron one, also based on SRTM, was then painstakingly corrected by Christian, I believe he did this by using measurements from NZ topo maps and hand correcting the data...
The only better mesh, is the RBE/SimPilot "Mountains of NZ" (aka 20m Mesh)...
Basically all the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) meshes use the same data... acquired by the Space Shuttle... so theoretically, will all be the same...
EXCEPT, the SRTM has lots and lots of "issues"... big spikes and sink holes where the radar signals were not reflected correctly... the RedBaron one, also based on SRTM, was then painstakingly corrected by Christian, I believe he did this by using measurements from NZ topo maps and hand correcting the data...
The only better mesh, is the RBE/SimPilot "Mountains of NZ" (aka 20m Mesh)...
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by Christian » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:11 pm
HardCorePawn wrote:QUOTE (HardCorePawn @ Jun 22 2009, 08:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I doubt you will find a better freeware NZ mesh than the old RedBaron 75m one...
Basically all the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) meshes use the same data... acquired by the Space Shuttle... so theoretically, will all be the same...
EXCEPT, the SRTM has lots and lots of "issues"... big spikes and sink holes where the radar signals were not reflected correctly... the RedBaron one, also based on SRTM, was then painstakingly corrected by Christian, I believe he did this by using measurements from NZ topo maps and hand correcting the data...
The only better mesh, is the RBE/SimPilot "Mountains of NZ" (aka 20m Mesh)...
Small correction: The Sim Pilot meshes don't use any SRTM, they are directly based on contours...
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by HardCorePawn » Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:17 pm
I stand corrected... and all I can say is "wow"... you started completely from scratch??? 
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by Christian » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:03 pm
HardCorePawn wrote:QUOTE (HardCorePawn @ Jun 30 2009, 04:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I stand corrected... and all I can say is "wow"... you started completely from scratch???
don't remind me - it was a bunch of work at the time, but it did pay off (in my opinion at least)
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