[Geographic Data (from web)]¶
Description: Imports geographic data from web services
When you select [Geographic Data], a list of importable geographic data is shown as submenus. Currently only Elevation data can be imported from web.
Please follow the steps below, to import geographic data from web.
- Select the geographic data.
- If you’ve not specified the coordinate system for the project, the [Select Coordinate System] dialog (Figure 42) is shown. Please select coordinate system and click on [OK] button.
- [Select Region] dialog
(Figure 67) is shown.
Use the following operations to select the region, and click on [Next]:
- Ctrl + Left-dragging to Pan the map.
- Ctrl + Middle-dragging to Zoom in/out the map. You also can use [Zoom In] and [Zoom Out] buttons.
- Left-dragging to select region. The selected region is shown as a box with black line.
- Click on [Next] button, and the [Zoom Level Setting] dialog is shown.
In this dialog, you can change the setting like below:
- You can select [Zoom level]. If you change the setting, you can review the abstract resolution and the size of data you are going to download, with [Resolution] and [Data size]. The default value of the [Zoom level] is the maximum value, so that user usually use the data with the highest resolution.
- You can select [Source]. Usually SRTM data distributed by USGS is used, but for example in Japan, you can choose geographic data distributed by GSI.
- Click on [OK], iRIC starts downloading, dialog in Figure 69 is shown.
- When the downloading finishes, the dialog disappears, and the downloaded geographic data is shown like Figure 70.