Hi,
I'm evaluating Map Suite for a project that involves interaction with terrain. In my application, I want to retrieve the terrain height for an arbitrary coordinate in the following manner:
User clicks somewhere on the map => I get the (xWorld, yWorld) mouse click coordinate => I get the terrain height in (xWorld, yWorld)
The "terrain" is defined by a well-known format, such as DTED, ESRI shapefile, ASCII, etc. The actual "terrain height" for a coordinate is an approximation that is calculated from the source data.
Is there any support in Map Suite for implementing what I described? I am aware of the FDO extension, but to my understanding it only allows to get the raw data from data files. So for example, it is possible get all features from a shapefile that represent elevation data for an area, but I have to calculate myself the elevation of coordinates in that area.
Thanks in advance