| Subject: Re: View from Bald Mountain |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 10/02/2009, 19:57 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Feb 10, 7:50 am, obviouslydelusional
<obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:
What software are you using to generate these RF line of sight
analyses? Presumably it's being used on USGS DEMs? Is the software
free/reasonably priced or big bucks? How steep a learning curve?
The software is free and open source.
http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html
The particular version I am running is beta. It uses the higher
resolution database and can handle larger amounts of data. It still
needs a lot of work. Note that the graphics I provide is reduced via
GIMP. The files exceed 200kpixels on a side, but Google Earth can only
handle about 3000 pixels on a side You need to break up the image into
smaller pieces for GE. What really need to be done if for the program
to break up the image into smaller pieces. I also have to select the
overlay itself via GMP and use the alpha layer to make it
transparent.
There is a similar windows version called radio mobile.
http://www.cplus.org/rmw/
It is probably OK for line of sight, but it is limited in array size.
Splat is relatively easy to use, but you get a tarball that needs to
be compiled under linux. That is a show stopper for a lot of people.