[OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map

[SteveC]

* @ 19/01/07 08:50:54 PM Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> 
> Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
> >Sent: 19 January 2007 8:11 PM
> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] SRTM contours on Mapnik map
> >
> >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 ...
> >
> 
> I'd agree with you regarding being able to adjust them but if they are in
> the db and shown in JOSM and the applet by default it's going to confuse the
> hell out of anyone just starting up.

or any existing users... this and the flight paths make a strong case
for a sister project - perhaps doing some mass altitude analysis of the
gps data we've built up.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
>  
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
> 
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have fun,

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