Heh. I couldn't resist the title. Gotta have a goofy sense of humor, it keeps life seeming reasonably sane.
Anyways, to cut to the chase, here's the rubber sheeting exercises I did. I'm posting up two - One's a shaded relief (with a problem) and the other is a "picture" view.
Notice how the DRG doesn't fill the whole mapping area. I downloaded both the DEM and DRG from the USGS, both were the same "chunk" of area I'd highlighted in their Seamless Data thingy (that thing we all hate because it's slow!).
Anyways, Yeah. I don't know what's up with the black band at the end, but the map is lined up pretty well. I posted this to show what's been going on randomly throughout my mapping trials :)
Anyways, here's a lovely picture. Choosing perspective is great because you can "hide" the ugly sections of map that didn't line up correctly or have big black bands all over it. Remember about lying with maps :-D
You are right, it does make a lovely landscape. But I think that is mainly a function of the light.
I thought rubber sheeting is the next step after water boarding.
Posted by: Misha Griffith | October 23, 2007 at 01:20 PM
You are right, it does make a lovely landscape. But I think that is mainly a function of the light.
I thought rubber sheeting is the next step after water boarding.
Posted by: Misha Griffith | October 23, 2007 at 01:20 PM
Brad -- I laughed out loud at your comment about lying with maps! And then I realized that this whole assignment was an exercise in selectively choosing images, perspectives and the things that prove our point. Thanks for the insight!
Posted by: Chris King | October 23, 2007 at 05:42 PM