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

Schuyler Erle schuyler at nocat.net
Mon Jan 8 14:37:12 GMT 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:04 +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Jan 2007 20:57, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Think what I'll do is adapt my existing SRTM-to-PNG contour image conversion 
> code to output shapefiles instead.

Honestly, before you do that, check out the gdalcontour tool from GDAL.
I'm pretty sure it'll do what you want. Are you starting from  .HGT
or .TIF files?

SDE





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