P3D Re: 3D Cartography Article

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Interesting article on 3D cartography is at this URL:
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/363068.asp
>
>The article includes a little red-cyan 3D image to view.
>
I was suprised that no mention of Cygnus Graphics crept into
the article since they've been producing strereo maps of the
Grand Canyon for years (you get an interesting effect if you
wear the glasses backwards :-)

I also saw a press conference on a new military mapping satellite
(to be launched by NASA) which is specifically designed to generate
detailed altitude/topo info as well as standard lat/long cooridinates.
The high resolution pictures will be classified, however.

--BW

              Bob Wier
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