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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>is there a time shedule when </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>AltitudeModel,altitude-profile plugin, srtm2 tilecreator</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>will be merged to git master ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>regards, konrad</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=niko.sams@gmail.com href="mailto:niko.sams@gmail.com">Niko Sams</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f.esser@rwth-aachen.de
href="mailto:f.esser@rwth-aachen.de">Florian Eßer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=marble-devel@kde.org
href="mailto:marble-devel@kde.org">Marble</A> ; <A title=tackat@kde.org
href="mailto:tackat@kde.org">Torsten Rahn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:40
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Marble-devel] Review
Request: AltitudeModel,altitude-profile plugin, srtm2 tilecreator</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: #d0d0d0 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em"><PRE style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">I got the feel that the word "elevation" is preferably used whenever in German we are using "Höhen..." (like the technical "Digitales Höhenmodell" which is "Digital Elevation Model (DEM)" as a technical term, or "Höhenprofil" = "Elevationprofile", etc.)
I think that "altitude" is preferred whenever it's just "Höhe" in German.
But that's just my gut feeling.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; MARGIN-LEFT: 1em">I think the reason for the comment above was just a technical one: In the initial version of this review request, there was only the code for Niko's altitude-profile plugin, but the CMakeLists tried to include the (non-existing) subdirectory elevationprofile.
But however, to continue the discussion: :-)
Here's another nice drawing showing the difference between elevation and altitude: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vertical_distances.svg" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vertical_distances.svg</A>
So basically, the term "elevation" seems to be bound to the earth's surface, while "altitude" is not.
KML uses altitude, because it can describe coordinates that are not bound to the earth's surface, for example the GPS track of a flying plane.
So taking this concept into consideration, the ElevationProfile plugin would strictly speaking be an AltitudeProfile instead (once it gains the ability to work for gpx/kml track data) and the AltitudeModel would be an ElevationModel, since it only describes the surface of the earth...</PRE></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT
class=Apple-style-span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Makes
sense. We should rename everything into Elevation*.</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span
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practice most use cases will deal with elevation. So elevation is ok
imho.<BR></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span
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