[OSM-talk] Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

[Nick Whitelegg]

>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.

As I think someone else said, that's what I do with Freemap 
(www.free-map.org.uk). I combine shapefiles of UK SRTM contour data with a 
PostGIS database based off planet.osm and combine the result.

Nick