[CF-Devel] elevations (was Re: more proposals)

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H. S. Teoh wrote:

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      > One thing, did you backfill in the elevation?  There are a couple
     
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      > automated options to do this now and I think that until we can figure
     
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      > out a better way to do weather we should try to keep the elevation
     
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      > information as much as possible. 
     
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      Ideally, this should be supported in the Java Editor.
     
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      Is AV working on this? :-)
     
     
Hm, I believe it would be much better to deal with the
problem on server side rather than doing something "hacky" in
the editor.

No matter what I do, preserving elevations is not going to work well.
Imagine I replace a mountain range by a desert plane. When the
elevations are backfilled they are dead wrong.
Inserting random values doesn't seem much better in the long run,
because in that case the values become totally meaningless.

To do the right thing, elevations would need to be based not only on
their surroundings (for smooth slopes) but also on the types of
arches used (e.g. mountain or plains?). Then one has to decide if
the overall tendency is upwards or downwards and eventually some
adjacent elevations need to be adjusted.
And even then, when all these factors are taken into account,
the mapmaker won't know what the weather code will do to his maps
because it's pretty much unpredictable.
So just guess how happy the average mapmaker will be, spending his
time with this.

And the more elevations go out of whack, the worse it gets:
When surrounded by "wrong" elevations, how can I insert "correct"
ones without going out of synch with the larger picture?

Honestly, I'm not sure what to do about it.
Suggestions are welcome.


AndreasV


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