3D Mapping Of Lake?

Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?

Cheers.

Danny wrote:
: Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?
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a wetsuit and scuba gear?
;-p

100 acre lake. That's a lot of swimming.


"Phil.L" wrote in message
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Danny wrote:
: Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?
:

a wetsuit and scuba gear?
;-p

"Phil.L" wrote in message
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Danny wrote:
: Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?
:

a wetsuit and scuba gear?
;-p

What are you a Masochist?????????

I would want a Dry Suit and Weezle EXtreme to go anywhere near my lake this
time of year

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"Danny" wrote in message
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Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?

Cheers.


For a rough & ready 3D view, see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richardbartlett/
& go to the Odds & Sods page.Follow the obvious link & you'll see a couple
of sample pics plus a downloadable example Excel spreadsheet with
instructions (no macros, no viruses!)
Its an approach I'm still messing around with so I won't pretend its
polished, but it should give you some ideas.

hth

Richard (Leeds)

Try an Angling Technics baitboat with radio sonar -
www.anglingtechnics.co.uk
CB
"Danny" wrote in message
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Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?

Cheers.

Nice idea - I think you may have something there, if only a little more
detail can be added.

Only initial drawback I can see is the way the detailed contours would
change as the years/floods etc go by. Now if weed & snags could be overlaid
....

Well done!

"Richard Bartlett" wrote in
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"Danny" wrote in message
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Hi. Are their any products for mapping out a lake in 3D?

Cheers.


For a rough & ready 3D view, see
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richardbartlett/
& go to the Odds & Sods page.Follow the obvious link & you'll see a couple
of sample pics plus a downloadable example Excel spreadsheet with
instructions (no macros, no viruses!)
Its an approach I'm still messing around with so I won't pretend its
polished, but it should give you some ideas.

hth

Richard (Leeds)

"Bryan Hall" wrote in message
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Nice idea - I think you may have something there, if only a little more
detail can be added.

Only initial drawback I can see is the way the detailed contours would
change as the years/floods etc go by. Now if weed & snags could be
overlaid
...

Good idea. I've just had a play around with it & found another rough & ready
way to do that.
Select the 'map' in Excel & copy it. Now paste it as an image into whatever
image editor you've got. I use Paintshop Pro, which supports image layers -
meaning I can place the map image in one layer & then draw/paint the
additional features (snags etc) in another. Should the contours change
dramatically (& I don't reckon that'd be particularly likely on a lake!) the
new depth measurements could be used to generate a new Excel map whuch could
then be copied as above & used to replace the map layer in the graphic

Alternatively I could just get out more :-)

Ta for the feedback

Richard (Leeds)

From a mapping point of view theres a piece of software called Matlab
http://www.mathworks.com/index.shtml that will produce a 3d charts.
(however its not a simple tool to use and if you buy it its expensive) if
you have not ethical problems you
could probably get it via kazaa or similar.

However for the effore involved in using it I'd stick with excel.