[OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Friday 19 January 2007 20:54, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk 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.)

Well i think yes and no. Once you have the countours in the database you can 
correct them and make them more precise. And every editor will display them 
without any additional effort. So I would upload them ...


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