[Talk-GB] OS Landform Panorama files

[Keith Sharp]

On 27-Oct-2011, at 1:43 PM, Tom Chance wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I've been experimenting with Maperitive to make walking maps,
> http://tom.acrewoods.net/2011/10/26/making-open-data-maps-the-almost-easy-way
> 
> I had some trouble getting the OS Land-form Panorama files into the correct format, but managed to get the right files off a subscriber-only train enthusiast web site. The files Nick put up, linked from here, didn't play with Maperitive and are divided up into smaller tiles:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Creating_a_panorama_with_OS_OpenData
> 
> I've now put the SRTM1 files that Maperitive can use up here, if somebody would like to give them a more permanent home be my guest:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24981_GB-N51-N49.rar
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24983_GB-N52.rar
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24984_GB-N54-N53.rar
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24985_GB-N56-N55.rar
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10914248/OSLFP/UKTS_24986_GB-N60-N57.rar

I did some work a while back on importing Land-form Panorama into PostGIS:

http://usingopendata.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/loading-landform-panorama-data-into-postgrespostgis/

Code is on Github:

https://github.com/keithsharp/lfp2pgsql

Once you've got the data in PostGIS you should be able to select and export to most formats.

Keith.