Use this component to create a geometry of the terrain surrounding the chosen location.
Terrain will be created with ALOS 1 arc-second (20 to 30 meters depending on the latitude) grid precision.
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Component requires that you are connected to the Internet, as it has to download the topography data.
It also requires MapWinGIS application to be installed.
Download and install either 32 bit or 64 bit (depending on your Rhino 5 version) version of MapWinGIS from here:
https://github.com/MapWindow/MapWinGIS/releases
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Component mainly based on:
"Mathematical cartography", V. Jovanovic, VGI 1983.
"Vincenty solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid" article by Chris Veness
https://books.google.rs/books/about/Matemati%C4%8Dka_kartografija.html?id=GcXEMgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html
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Provided by Gismo 0.0.3