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Google earth GEOdata ?

Question: Is it possible to use/retrieve Geodata from Google-Earth ?

What I want to do is take a little area, get terrain information (coordinates, height, elevation) and simulate how the selected area would be flooded at specified amounts of rain for a specified amount of hours.

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Free terrain data for specified areas can be retrieved from NASA's SRTM mission, which used radar mapping from the space shuttle. I think Google Earth uses this same data.

MarkJ  2010-04-13 10:42:29

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