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geodeticman.5 · 08-05-2008, 05:50 AM

Char - I didn't know you were a maps/atlas lover too ! - Yes, getting engrossed in an atlas is predictably a favourite pastime of mine - I am in fact a bit .....er... obsessive about it, not unhealthy mind you , but I like to....... smell the pages.... of -older- atlases - with linen paper..... go ahead and eye possible exits if you want...but its nothing weird now.... LOL I just love them.....the way a good map smells at dawn....it smells like victory lol j/k....

no its like being able to go to the country, or that little town out in b.f. Egypt... you can imagine the trip in a good atlas or map. And as Shelton said - "hear the wind" and "smell the mountain air" from a good shaded relief map. An amazing amount of every-day road maps , etc., show very faintly a crude form of shaded relief derived from remote sensing sattelite imagery, and say so in the legend i.e. "landform relief from photogrammetric methods" or "LANDSAT imagery-derived" ( very out of date) .

At that level, really is just the faintest of underlay for a road-map commonly to simply indicate that "there are hills/mountains in this area" , useful info to say the least. But in one of Shelton's works, or in rare cases when I am really fortunate in my work - I can "smell the mountain air" and I would add to the metaphors "feel the mountains on the map" - when it looks so strikingly full of terrain and rugosities that you are actually compelled to run your hand over the flat map page - that is when I know I have rendered relief well, using Shelton algorithms etc.

I would like very much to "take topo" around the hill I assume Gord's Rosedale mansion is on from read descriptions.

I wonder, Char - how much is Gord's house worth ? The answer is I am sure quite personal, and disrespectful of me to ask... I'll withdraw the question LOL. just knowing you and your real estate connections...... nah we should let him keep it private i 'spect...ya think...? One safe comment to make would be that no doubt, as long as he has had the Rosedale mansion, he no doubt got it for a comparitive song years ago, and its value now probably makes even him groan at tax time LOL

geo steve

08-05-2008, 05:50 AM	#16
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Bridle Path Home for sale Char - I didn't know you were a maps/atlas lover too ! - Yes, getting engrossed in an atlas is predictably a favourite pastime of mine - I am in fact a bit .....er... obsessive about it, not unhealthy mind you , but I like to....... smell the pages.... of -older- atlases - with linen paper..... go ahead and eye possible exits if you want...but its nothing weird now.... LOL I just love them.....the way a good map smells at dawn....it smells like victory lol j/k.... no its like being able to go to the country, or that little town out in b.f. Egypt... you can imagine the trip in a good atlas or map. And as Shelton said - "hear the wind" and "smell the mountain air" from a good shaded relief map. An amazing amount of every-day road maps , etc., show very faintly a crude form of shaded relief derived from remote sensing sattelite imagery, and say so in the legend i.e. "landform relief from photogrammetric methods" or "LANDSAT imagery-derived" ( very out of date) . At that level, really is just the faintest of underlay for a road-map commonly to simply indicate that "there are hills/mountains in this area" , useful info to say the least. But in one of Shelton's works, or in rare cases when I am really fortunate in my work - I can "smell the mountain air" and I would add to the metaphors "feel the mountains on the map" - when it looks so strikingly full of terrain and rugosities that you are actually compelled to run your hand over the flat map page - that is when I know I have rendered relief well, using Shelton algorithms etc. I would like very much to "take topo" around the hill I assume Gord's Rosedale mansion is on from read descriptions. I wonder, Char - how much is Gord's house worth ? The answer is I am sure quite personal, and disrespectful of me to ask... I'll withdraw the question LOL. just knowing you and your real estate connections...... nah we should let him keep it private i 'spect...ya think...? One safe comment to make would be that no doubt, as long as he has had the Rosedale mansion, he no doubt got it for a comparitive song years ago, and its value now probably makes even him groan at tax time LOL geo steve