[OSM-dev] SRTM relief

[Andy Allan]

On Jan 3, 2008 9:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Andy Allan wrote:
>
> > [srtm2shp]
> > I had seen that when you posted about it recently. I haven't tried it
> > out yet, but I have more confidence in the usefulness of your scripts
> > than of mine, but I couldn't get the older version of your scripts to
> > work for me.
>
> There's also DEM2TOPO, which I use, and gdal_contour, of course. A bit
> of Douglas-Peuckerising and a 50m contour keeps them manageable, but
> yes, at a single file of 10m contours you're inevitably going to have
> problems.

I'd got a setup working based around gdal_contour, which I was very
pleased with, but it really gets unwieldy dealing with vast amounts of
contour data.

Cheers,
Andy