[OSM-talk] Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

[Thom Shannon]

That's cool, I was sure someone would be doing something with it.

It would be good to have backgrounds like this on map tiles when zoomed 
out, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA06672_modest.jpg



David Groom wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thom Shannon" 
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> To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:39 PM
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
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>> Has anyone tried to use data from the Shuttle Radar Topography 
>> Mission to add detail to osm maps? It could be used to add 
>> approximate altitude data to nodes, or for giving a shaded background 
>> to maps showing mountainous regions.
>>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Srtm2Osm ?
>
> David
>
>> A lot of nasa material has a very relaxed licence or is public 
>> domain. I'm not sure if it's covered by nasa copyright guidelines 
>> (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html#Guidelines), and I don't think 
>> they're compatible with CC-By-SA. Still it could be used to make 
>> shaded backgrounds for open street map that are simply licensed 
>> differently?
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