Contour lines - elevation slopes

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What should this feature enhancement do?

Like the geodesic grid, could an option be natively implemeted to draw
contour lines of elevation ?..

.. Because GE is great for retrieving data from SRTM database.

Are there any known workarounds that produce the similar results?

That is the question i was wondering about since some weeks while
developing a tiny DEM-like app ...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eky...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2010 at 6:32

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Our team has tried to implement contour lines as kml and it has been difficult. 
We often end up with complex 
layers that slow down the plugin considerably due to the amount of detail. So 
it would be great if the plugin 
supported this natively not only so we don't have to go through that trouble, 
but also for performance reasons.

Original comment by underbluewaters on 5 Apr 2010 at 2:36

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NASA Worldwind does this job so easily that I still wonder why it's not 
implemented 
in GE.

Original comment by eky...@gmail.com on 18 May 2010 at 6:31

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By the way, there are two workarounds to draw "filled contour lines" :
1. With an Image GroundOverlay combined with a slider to change its altitude ...
2. Draw a rectangle with an equal & variable altitude (sort of satellite-like 
object)

Original comment by eky...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 8:27

Attachments:

• groundOverlayAltitude+editeurRTF.gif
• MNT-VueSatelliteOrthogonale.gif