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

Reply via email to