[OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Friday 19 Jan 2007 19:54, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:42:09PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > Have just now managed to render a Mapnik map containing SRTM contours.
>
> ...
>
> > http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/mapnik2/100485125.png
> >
> > Comments on colour scheme of contours welcome - am trying to get
> > something like the OS landranger mapss.
>
> Wow, looks great!
>
> I guess the plan is to keep the contours separate until rendering time,
> rather than to upload them into the database? (That would seem to be rather
> a waste of db space.)

Yes, the idea is to pre-generate shapefiles of the contours.

Nick