[Talk-is] Rendering with SRTM

[Davíð Jakobsson]

Hi,

There is at least one source of elevation data which will work with
kosmos which you can find here.

http://www3.hi.is/~dag6/OSM/Contours/

Other sources(non-free) for elevation data are the ones at
viewfinderparanormas and the new ASTER GDEM. Seems though that the ASTER
GDEM service is suspended for now.

http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html#nat

http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/suspended.jsp

I have been trying to get those two to work with kosmos but without luck
so I would welcome the discussion.

Just to clarify, I would like to point out that even though this data is
non-free it is my understanding that no laws will be broken by making
instruction available of how to use this data for local rendering. I
would also welcome any discussion about this.

The reason for me to push this is to make hiking maps of Iceland which
are quite useless without a high-resolution elevation set.

/David


On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:13 +0000, Christoph L. Hess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody know how to render a map with SRTM data of Iceland? I was 
> looking around but did not find anything. I know there were some 
> discussions before about the SRTM data on the list.
> 
> Which program and which data is needed and how?
> 
> I tried Kosmos and Groundtruth but the download does not work because 
> Iceland is not in the NASA SRTM data. What a shame!
> 
> Any other ideas? I remember (but can not find it) that Ævar did write 
> something about that sometime ago. Some scripts to render if I remember 
> correctly.
> 
> Christoph
> 
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