Re: [mkgmap-dev] ASTER elevation data

2009-06-30 Thread Thilo Hannemann
Hi Christian, Am 30.06.2009 um 23:33 schrieb Christian Gawron: I already wrote a class to read SRTM data directly with mkgmap, i.e. without having to create the contours as separate (huge) files. This is very much encouraged. For the contour lines the computing times may be that long that

Re: [mkgmap-dev] ASTER elevation data

2009-06-30 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Christian, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Christian Gawron wrote: > Dear Marko, > > I already wrote a class to read SRTM data directly with mkgmap, i.e. without > having to create the contours as separate (huge) files. This feature seems really cool! I'm looking forward to trying it out. Ch

Re: [mkgmap-dev] ASTER elevation data

2009-06-30 Thread Christian Gawron
Dear Marko, I already wrote a class to read SRTM data directly with mkgmap, i.e. without having to create the contours as separate (huge) files. Since I'm still testing it and I have to add some configuration stuff (path of directory containing data, distance between contour lines etc.), I hav

[mkgmap-dev] ASTER elevation data

2009-06-30 Thread Marko Mäkelä
I came across this via Slashdot: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_09-150_ASTER_Topographic_Map.html Quoting the press release above: "Previously, the most complete topographic set of data publicly available was from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission