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

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Sat Jan 6 18:40:34 GMT 2007


Hi Artem,

Artem Pavlenko wrote:

> VMap0 does, indeed, has the elevation (polylines) layer, have a look  
> http://media.mapnik.org/vmap0_contours.jpg
> 
> It is quite high level, though - no much use for walkers :)

Yes, well, from the spec: "The accuracy of contours collected from ONC
source is +/-152.4 meters." Indeed, this is more a rough guess than
reliable data (like almost everything in VMap0). I didn't expect Nick
to ask for _this_  ;-))

Cheers,
	Martin.
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