On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you being offered a 20m DEM, or just the contours generated from a > DEM? The DEM is more useful (it's a grid of spot-heights) since it can > be used to generate hillshading etc too.
i don't know what a DEM is unfortunately this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model > Yes, all height data is processed completely independently. To get it > used within OSM maps and other services (e.g. height profiles on > routing websites) needs two things > > 1) The DEMs to be made available. Find some space on a webserver, and > document them on the wiki. > 2) Each individual renderer (etc) to use the DEMs. This will be > different amounts of work for different people, so I would expect some > people just to stick with SRTM unless they have a particular interest > in NZ. ok, i'll find out more and put it on the wiki. thanks andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
