[Talk-us] TopOSM Colorado

[Lars Ahlzen]

Jason R. Surratt wrote:
> If you're entertaining the world you may want to look at the Aster GDEM 
> dataset too (http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp). It provides 1arcsec 
> (~30m) post spacing for nearly the entire globe (83N/S) and is freely 
> available. Unfortunately downloading the entire data set from their 
> website would be difficult at best and there are reports of some 
> spurious artifacts. 

That may indeed be the best option for areas outside of the US.

IIRC, there were some questions about licensing, and their servers were 
more or less down at the time, so I haven't tried it. I tried STRM data, 
which has at least comparable resolution/quality, with good results, so 
using Aster should be fairly straightforward.

- Lars

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Lars Ahlzen
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