From 028ed48da9927913367efde7db3372808b7bab9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: strawberryfield Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:12:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..221ec37 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# TIFFmanager +##GeoTiff Explorer + +Some years ago I wrote a little program to download DEM data from the italian "Portale Cartografico Nazionale" (http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/GN/) available at http://www.trainsimhobby.net/infusions/pro_download_panel/download.php?did=1340 + +When I wrote it I needed to download data for Ahrntal in South Tirol and the program worked fine. +Some weeks ago I downloaded the data for a region near Rimini on the Adriatic sea. + +When I used that data in the railways simulator I saw an hight wall where I espected to see the sea ![The problem](http://win.simtreni.net/public/allegati/strawberryfield/201724154128_Open%20Rails%202017-02-04%2003-34-02.jpg) +The reason is that the data have a 32000 sample (altitude in meters) few meters from the coast to mark the end of valid data. + +This tool borns to investigate the problem and to solve it, but can be useful to learn as GeoTiff are built +