Andy Ross wrote: > > David Megginson wrote: > > I have a feeling that we won't have good, free geodata for the rest > > of the world until the U.S. decides to provide it for us, > > Actually, wasn't there a shuttle mission about two years ago which did > a high-resolution radar survey of the whole planet? I remember > reading somewhere (maybe here) that the intent was to make the data > publically available after some number of years. > > Does anyone remember this project?
Yes, SRTM. the page http://www.dfd.dlr.de/srtm/neu/processing.htm (DLR is the German "NASA"; they were involved big time with this project) tells you the status. At the moment you can see thatus of the 20.06.2002. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel