Hi All, Can any trig or GPS experts help me out here? I'm trying to create a geo-spacial bounding box (rectangle) calculation returning the maximum latitude and longitude using the following method that I've retrieved. I am calling the method once for each of the for bearings: north, south, east and west. With these four values I intend...
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. ...
I'm building an Augmented Reality application in the fashion of Yelp, and need to access the geodata of various buildings in as accurate a fashion as possible. What is the most accurate Geocoding service available? Price is also an factor, but less so than the accuracy of the data. ...
Question: On http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10150007 one can see a map of european countries colored according to state debt/deficit. Now I would have already found it useful several times if I was able to do such a thing myself, for example to visualize regional sales data. Does anybody know: Is there any (OpenSource) tool with which I ca...
I'm looking for suggestions for an ideal database or data structure for storing a map. Essentially, the map consists of "ways" which are like roads, paths, etc. Ways contain nodes (which have a latitude and longitude coordinate, and sometimes an altitude.) Any such database or structure: should be able to locate all the nodes in a bo...