Author Topic: [Tut] Getting Heightmaps from GoogleEarth (Read 2207 times)

Jimmg · April 26, 2009, 05:39:00 AM

Too lazy to make my own

Basically this method will give you nice high resolution heightmaps with terrain elevations around the world. You can get the data for almost anywhere on the globe. But not so much for the poles.

You'll need those three things plus some sort of image editing software.

* Google Earth (http://earth.google.com)
* MicroDem (http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/microdem.htm)
* SRTM Overlay for Google Earth (Run from URL once you've installed Google Earth http://www.ambiotek.com/topoview).

Full tutorial found here:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=27052
After your done editing the tiff's resize it to a 256x256 png and put it in heightscripts of the editor folder.