DEM files 2005-04-22 - By Eric Winemiller
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EW,
I'm guessing you went through the 1:250k link and then downloaded the
uncompressed stuff. USGS posted them without extensions, just add the
DEM extension to make it work.
Once you've got the extension, you should be able to use it with
anything that supports DEM. To use it in Carrara, as mentioned in the
earlier posts, there are various tools that will convert it to a Bitmap
or TIFF but you'll see a lot of banding since it's converted to 8bits.
Ground Control will let you import it natively into the Terrain Modeler
with no loss of precision.
Regards,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
3D plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com
ewillia777 wrote:
>
> How do I use the DEM files from the USGS? What file format are they
> since they don't have an extension? I can't seem to get them to work
> with anything including TerraGen. I'm hoping someone can shed some
> light on this for me.
>
> TIA
> EW
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