[Techtalk] Data structure for Earth slice data

[Mani A]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> Kelly Jones writes:
>> What's a good data structure/methodology for representing "slices" of
>> the Earth?
>
> Your specification of the set seems so general that the first thing
> I would probably do is make an object-oriented representation of it.
> (I'm not an "OO Uber Alles" sort, but OO is really well suited for
> some sorts of problems and this is a perfect example.)

The description is vague. But the OO solution is correct.

R has libraries for all this and they can be used with maps and
related open source software.

Best

A. Mani



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