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Virtual Hiker is a Java program that allows a user to easily and interactively use map data to plan hikes or explore new areas (Currently only in the United States). This program includes features helpful to the hiker such as interactive 3D maps of the terrain rendered in real-time; the ability to trace trails across the terrain and get height verses distance Profiles; and the ability to Tile together adjacent maps to create large seamless map areas. The primary features of Virtual Hiker and VH Editor: * VH Editor can read most types of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) map data that is on a 24k Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid. This includes Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) images including Digital Orthographic Quads (DOQ), Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) in either ASCII or SDTS format, and Digital Line Graphs (DLG) in either ASCII or SDTS format. * You can load as many map layers as you want (until you run out of memory) and they can be tiled together to form large seamless maps. * When multiple map layers are either overlaid or tiled together, they can be saved to a single Virtual Hiker specific file that groups all the map layers together. * The user can select any location on the map and get latitude, longitude, altitude (if a DEM map Layer is loaded), and magnetic offset from true north for that point. * A line can be traced across a map (that includes a DEM layer) and a plot of height verses distance will be generated as well as some other statistics calculated. * DRG images (which are often very large) can be processed to create a tiled image that can be loaded and displayed and zoomed in and out of efficiently while using very little memory. * An interactive, 3D map, rendered in real-time can be generated for any number of tiled DEM map layers (they do NOT have to be joined together into a single large DEM first!).

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