Timeline for Does a value in srtm dem file refer to the center or corner of a cell?
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| Jul 29, 2012 at 5:02 | history | edited | Devdatta Tengshe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2012 at 4:47 | comment | added | Bruce | Thanks this does give some context, given that a cell represents the average height for all records in that polygon then the most accurate way for me to generate a point from each pixel is to treat the value as the elevation at the centroid. | |
| Jul 28, 2012 at 4:07 | comment | added | Devdatta Tengshe | @whuber It is possible, that I misunderstood the question. I thought the question was about, the height value of the pixel; If the OP wants to know about the (x,y) coordinates of the pixel, then the answer gis.stackexchange.com/a/30463/442 is more appropriate. | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 14:05 | comment | added | whuber | This is all correct, but I don't think it answers the question. At the end of the day, the software assigns coordinates to each cell. In this particular SRTM DEM, what then are the coordinates of the lower left cell? | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 13:25 | history | answered | Devdatta Tengshe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |