I know some of you work with geospacial datasets and maybe have some info. For the past couple years I've been working with a friend processing this data and looking for datasets that are HUGE. Huge does not have to be in scale, but resolution, I am looking for anything complete in the 1foot~10cm range (anything slightly…
It is a real bitch to get the data you want to download, but this was one of the best places I found when I was looking for that sort of thing: http://seamless.usgs.gov/index.php about making data from scratch-- World Machine is good, but I think GeoControl is better (once you get past the UI). [edit] Oops, sorry-- didn't…
The use is real-time, but not for games, more for high-end military sims, so we are able to process pretty much any data and turn it into something usable, which is expected because they like things almost one-click.
I KNOW your pain... USGS is your best bet, otherwise you have to go through very expensive pay sites. Another way is extract it from "Google earth" http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=607176 All the above ends being really hard to use for game environments. It's just messy and frustrating. Plus the resolution is…