[clug] SPLAT Signal Propagation, Loss, And Terrain analysis tool [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Keith Goggin]

Roppola, Antti wrote:

Hi Antti,

The Digital Elevation Topography Models are from 
<http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/> but downloaded 
from<http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM3/>

I couldn't open the link in your second para but this is a list of 
available formats from mapconnect 
<http://mapconnect.ga.gov.au/MapConnect/?site=250K&accept_agreement=on> 
the default is ESRI Shapefile.

Can you suggest which of the above formats I might try?

I will read-up on Web Map Service from Geoscience Australia 
unfortunately the mapconnect XML file would not display with firefox???

Thanks for your help, if I may I will ask further questions when I've 
done some more reading.


> Hi Keith,
>
> In short, yes it is.
>
> I had a quick look at Splat and it appears to generae analyses as raster
> layers which are almost certainily fixed to some real-world coordinate
> space. This means any GIS (like the FOSS QuantumGIS) will be able to
> overlay your signal coverage on the Topo250 data.
>
> However I notice that Topo250 is published as a convenient WMS service:
> http://mapconnect.ga.gov.au/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?Version=1.
> 1.1&Request=getcapabilities&Service=WMS&Servicename=GDA94_MapConnect_SDE
> _250kmap_WMS&
>
> If you want to do a little more work up-front to publish your analyses
> as WMS service, it would be a pretty trivial OpenLayers project to
> overlay your results with that or any other WMS (like Open Street Map).
> Here's an example overlaying OSM on the OpenLayers base:
> http://www.elder-gods.net/hastur/foss4g2009/openlayers/index2.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Antti