Questions tagged [terrain]

The vertical and horizontal dimension of land surface

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Given a terrain, how to draw the stream flow path?

Assuming I have a terrain, as usual the terrain has ridges, creeks and all the characteristics that you can find on a real life map. Water flows from the top of the mountain into lower area, the path that water flows is termed stream flow path. The…
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How to query height of a given lat long coordinate from server side?

I need to some calculation with terrain surface, I use cesium but it works slow. Cesium has a method sampleTerrainMostDetailed, it gives me height of given coordinates but it calculates height on client. sampleTerrainMostDetailed works like…