[OSM-talk] [OT] Shapefiles of SRTM data?

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 05 Jan 2007 22:08, Kristian Thy wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > Slightly off topic - but does anyone know of a source for shapefiles of
> > NASA SRTM contour data?
>
> I may be stating the obvious here, but shapefiles are a vector format
> while the SRTM data is a raster set. What were you going to use it for?
> GeoTIFF would be my choice if I were to use the SRTM for anything.

What I meant was shapefiles of SRTM contour lines, generated from the raw 
data. I'd like to use Mapnik to combine SRTM contours and OSM data.

Nick