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

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 05 Jan 2007 23:59, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 23:08 +0100, 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.
>
> If you're looking for a Shapefile of SRTM *contours*, such a thing
> wouldn't be too difficult to make. I would be glad to help with this if
> that is what you're after.

That's what I meant. I was wondering whether there were any pre-built sets out 
there. Artem, I think, mentioned vmap0 - I'll look into that - if not, it 
should be fairly easy to adapt my SRTMConGen code to generate shapefiles 
rather than PNG images of the contours.

Nick