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

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Monday 08 Jan 2007 14:37, you wrote:
> 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

.hgt files. Presumably it offers flexibility e.g. units of height, interval 
etc?

Nick