[Gdal-dev] shaded relief utility
Markus Neteler
neteler at itc.it
Tue Dec 13 18:09:08 EST 2005
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:03:38PM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 23:32, Brent Fraser wrote:
> > Paul, Matt,
> >
> > And it compiled ok on Windows. I justed editted the makefile.vc file to
> > include hillshade.exe. I haven't actually tried it yet.
> >
> > Like Paul, I'm actually interested in shading an image file based on a
> > DEM (if that's what you meant, Paul)
> >
> > Brent
>
> No, I meant I need a way to make "color scaled relief maps" (or whatever they
> are called in GIS lingo) from DEMs. The type that has a color gradient based
> on the altitude.
>
> It's pretty simple so I find it hard to believe no one has written an open
> source utility to do it. It's just a matter of trying to find out what's
> available.
Maybe this one helps
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/shade.clr.sh.html
But it's only a script.
Markus
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