[CF-Devel] speculations about the floor

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On 27-Jun-03 Mark Wedel wrote:
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        It would be trivial to add a field to the map header like 'map_elevation'. 
     
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      It 
     
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      would also be easy to populate the archetypes with 'sane' elevation values 
     
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      (mountains are 5000 feet or whatever).
     
     
The problem with putting it in the header, is that you end up with a
granularity of 50x50, which is even less than the weathermap tiles.  While we
could put it in the arch tiles themselves, I think that will lose precision..
for example, if a forest is allways 3000, you don't get any forests rising out
of a valley into a snowline.

Also.. I still plan on making fully dynamicly generated worlds working.. If you
wreck the precision of the elevation, that becomes impossible.

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        If these other elevation files are supposed to be maintained, I then really
     
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      wonder how likely that is to happen.  Map makers making changes may not be
     
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      aware 
     
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      of them.  And as said, if this is just holding generated data, why not have
     
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      the 
     
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      weather system itself generate that data?  Maybe I'm missing something there.
     
     
I realize the elevation is annoying to maintain..  But I don't think reducing
the precision of the elevation stat is the right way to fix this.

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