Creating Topographic Maps from Online Data Using Mathematica -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

Creating Topographic Maps from Online Data Using Mathematica

Author

A. Struthers

Journal / Anthology

Mathematica in Education and Research

Year:

1995

Volume:

Issue:

Page range:

24-28

Description

Instructions are provided for downloading topographic data for any region of the contiguous 48 states from the United States Geographical Survey's World Wide Web site. Mathematica code to reduce the original 9 megabytes of data to a manageable size is included. The process is illustrated by creating maps of the Lake Superior region.

Subject

Social Science > Geography and Cartography

Downloads

TopoMap.m (5.1 KB) - Mathematica Package

TopoMap.nb (840.3 KB) - Mathematica Notebook

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