| scmuskies - 9/21/2012 11:30 AM
For the Lakemaster and 1' contours, it's possible they mapped it themselves but don't have it in 1' contours to keep it from getting impossible to read, especially on deep lakes. For example, Big Green was mapped but doesn't show in 1' contours (on my chip) and I wouldn't want it to b/c there's areas that would be nothing but a solid black line of 1' contours stacked on top of each other - impossible to read.
sc
I'm not blaming you, but I don't buy the whole, "impossible to read" claim. Lake of the woods where Lake master has surveyed is in 1 foot contours...that lake gets to 200+ and the structure is far more complex. Waubesa's basin is mostly ~25fow, that is pretty shallow relative to other lakes that do have 1 foot contours. Most of the metro lakes in the Twin Cities have 1 foot contours and those can be deeper and have far more structure variation than the bowls of monona, waubesa and mendota.
It's kinda false advertisement when most of the lakes that are surveyed and in "HD" are 1 foot contours, then three lakes by a couple hundred thousand people they choose to only do 1 foot contours? I'd like to know what they define as HD... |
