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

[Artem Pavlenko]

How about using OS geoid model to extract contours? It should be possible to 
get reasonable accuracy. I guess licensing might be a problem... not sure. 
Has anyone looked into this?

Cheers,
Artem.


On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:01, Martin Spott wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> > 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."
>
> Ah, BTW, these are line strings - and I'd expect real "contour lines"
> to be closed polygons,
>
> Cheerio,
> 	Martin.