How many times have you pieced together the spot elevation data on a set of plans, triangulated it and then contoured it only to find isolated areas where the triangulation routine did not quite get it right? I sometimes contour at ridiculous contour intervals searching for any small anomalies that won’t show up on a [...]
Carlson Software Surface Manager
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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A Word About DTMs and TINS
November 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Seems I have gotten ahead of myself, I have started posting about things like DTMs and TINs and I have not attempted to explain what they are. For starters, a DTM is a Digital Terrain Model and a TIN is a Triangulated Irregular Network. For the most part, I often use the terms interchangeably but [...]
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