Geoff,
part of my plan is try and incorporate mif topo's into the mix of
elevation. I had a script somewhere that used Fred's fgsd xml format to
overlay the topo's elevation data on a tile and then export from fgsd to
build a new tile :)

Jason


On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:36 +0200, Geoff McLane wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 13:11 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote:
> > Jason Cox wrote:
> > > Geoff,
> > >   sorry for the double post, but I thought I had issues with my old and
> > > new email address.
> > > Anyway,the original hgt source was from
> > > e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2/Australia
> > > This was 'wget' from the site back '06 and unfortunatly not available
> > > now. I am cutting up the hgt file with 'gtchop 1 HGT/S38E150.hgt
> > > SRTM2-Australia-3/' and it shows no errors.
> > 
> > There's your problem - the data is 3 arcsec, not 1, so effectively 
> > you've shrunk it to 1/3 of its original size. Re-run hgtchop with 3 
> > instead of 1.
> > 
> > Jon
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Maybe Jon has hit the point - try 3 instead of 1 ;=)) thanks,
> Jon...
> 
> And I think the 'new' location of the data is :-
> 
> NASA_WGET="ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2/SRTM3/Australia";
> 
> But I have found a MISSING DEM block. I tried to do
> Sydney, but found no S40E150 on the above FTP site
> 
> I found -
> OZSET="S31E150 S31E151 S31E152 S31E153 S32E150 S32E151 \
> S32E152 S32E153 S32E159 S33E150 S33E151 S33E152 S34E150 \
> S34E151 S35E150 S35E151 S36E150 S37E150 S38E150"
> 
> But could not find data for say S40E150???
> 
> My only alternative was to switch to using GLOBE data...
> 
> Cut from my makesyd script...
> # (b) Try USGS DEM files
> USEUSGS=1   # DEM data
> # source =
> http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
> 
> USGS_URL="http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/gtopo30/global/";
> USGS_MIRROR="http://www1.gsi.go.jp/geowww/globalmap-gsi/gtopo30/data/global/";
> 
> #
> OZ_USGS="http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/gtopo30/global/e140s10.tar.gz";
> 
> If you find any other (free) DEM/SRTM data for OZ, I would 
> be most interested...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> PS: You can get my full makesyd script from :-
>  http://geoffair.net/tmp/makesyd 
> but it requires you have VMAP0 in a specific directory, but
> maybe you are not using VMAP0... and be aware it FAILS.
> See my developing page -
>  http://geoffair.net/tmp/newscenery.htm 
> 
> 
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