Precisely selecting terrain-following regions in shallow areas with google earth

[FinnHeu]

Hi there,

first thanks a lot for providing this software, it makes generating meshes so much easier. :)
I do have a problem, however, when I try to create terrain-following inner and outer paths in google earth in shallow areas like the Arctic shelf seas. I could not find any solution so far to adjust the color range of google earth so that topographic features in shallow areas are distinguishable from their surroundings. An example is the northern Barents Sea (see below image), where in google earth topographical features are not visible despite that there is a canyon in this area. In particular in km scale meshes I don't want make the high resolution nest too large to save resources. Am I missing some setting in google earth?

Anyway, to solve this issue for me, I created python code that allows basically the same thing as google earth, i.e. defining an inner and outer path by mouse-clicking in a map of the desired region. It takes the bathymetry file that is downloaded by download_data.sh to plot the bathymetry of the respective region to precisely select the inner and outer paths. The paths are then stored in the /kml folder as a .kml file and can be directly digested by fmesh in the mesh generation.

If you are interested in adding this to fmesh, I would be happy to share the code. :)

Cheers,
Finn

[Sealki]

Hi Finn,

Sorry for the late reply.

As I understood, you don't have any problem with fmesh, and just want to share the code that allows making .kml files based on a detailed bathymetry map. I appreciate your efforts, but not sure if your code should be a part of the current git project. But probably I am not a proper person to ask such questions. I wrote fmesh for my own needs, but I am not a member of FESOM2 developing team really. Just another user :)

Regards,
Sergei