Displaying elevation data

[Matthew Perry]

Vishal,

 In terms of visualizing elevation data, there are a number of good options:

- create a hillshade and overlay that on the elevation layer at 50% opacity
- colorize the elevation layer (ie green to white instead of black&white)
- generate a vector contour layer

Mapserver itself is not capable of doing this processing; you can
achieve these through many other pieces of software such as GRASS,
MicroDEM,  GDAL, etc. I wrote a few custom apps for this purpose that
are described on my site : http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=7

 Mapserver only does 2D so true 3D is not possible.

- matt

On 10/21/07, Vishal Nagpal <vishu_73ns at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to display elevation data dt1 and dt2 files.
>
> I am getting a gray scale image as output. Though it gives an impression of
> varying heights but
> Is it possible to do more with it, like see contours, or see 3D.
> I have tried changing scale but it only varies the shades of grey.
> Surprisingly A combine layer of tif and elevation shows some color shades. I
> don't know why?
> Vishal
>


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