Here's a link to a blog entry I've just written on my code for doing this: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/2010/01/generating-fake-geographies.html The code isn't available yet, it needs a bit of cleaning up and documenting, but if anyone wants the raw code then I can scrape it up for you! Barry
Creating random (but believable) geographies
3 messages · Barry Rowlingson
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There's been a bit of interest in my code so I'll try and make an R package out of it very soon. Also I've discovered some slight modification can make authentic-looking river networks - I've added a bit to my blog post to show what they look like - scroll to bottom of: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/2010/01/generating-fake-geographies.html That's what I did yesterday instead of packaging the existing code - sorry, but I can't help tinkering! Barry
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Hi all, I've bundled my fake region and river generators into a source tarball here: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Software/Fakeplace/ no Windows zip, but there's no C code in it so installation into Windows isn't that difficult. I wont be building a windows zip until I get it into R-forge. If someone else wants to import it into R-forge, then great. Barry