Ah yes. I can see these maps finding their way into Terragen, Bryce and other 3D landscape modelling programs pretty soon - I might even have a go at it myself. What would be really interesting would be to set them up in Celestia (a well-known open-source astronomy space-travel program) and then you virtually could go hiking on the surface of Mars. Martian orienteering, anyone? (Erm, does Mars have a magnetic field so we can do that?)

I dream of the day I can roam around a virtual, hi res, martian landscape. For some reason this has always been of great interest to me.

I will never get there physically, so the next best thing is to go on a digital trek around the canyons and mountains. Imagine standing 100 miles away from Olympus Mons and looking up up up....!!

Bring it on!