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Is there an LOD chart or information anywhere?

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I'm wondering if there is a chart or list of LOD cells and where they are located?

I'm working on a photoreal project (the first of many), and in order to fix any image distortion over long distances it would be great to work the imaging on an LOD cell by LOD cell level rather than try and cover a huge area in one shot...

If I could figure out the boundaries of each LOD cell or look them up, it would help tremendously in getting the images aligned more accurately...

Any help would be grrrrreeeeaaaaatttttlllllyyyy appreciated... ;)

Thanks in advance
Dean.
 

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Hi Dean,

A tool like TCalc shows you which cell you are in at the moment.

But the boundaries are easy to calculate, as it is just a grid over the earth. The terrain SDK does list how many degrees each square is for a certain LOD model, so then with some simple math you can calculate the borders for your area.
 
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Cool, thanks for the info... I'll have to also print out the terrain SDK's again, and start going through them...

Now if I could only afford the 1m per pix images, I'd be a happy camper :)
 
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Thanks, I actually found stuff at flightsim.com just moments after I posted... thanks for the file name though, will help if I ever need to find it again... :D
 
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