For some time now I have suspected that srtmchop does not do its job 
correctly. Two reasons:
1. At ELLX the VOR LUX, although placed at the correct lat/lon is 
located at the foot of a hill which if it would be there in RL would not 
improve nav signal reception. (ref: 
http://www.emmerich-j.de/EDDF/EDDF-ELLX.zip)
2. The north border of the geotiff files is 0 elevation over the entire 
west-east line in the output files (*.arr.gz)

So I experimented a bit and to make a long story short I wrote something 
that handles the data correctly. Called ascchop as it chops *.asc files 
(from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org) and not the geotiff-s (same data 
though). Only works on linux and as I only know a bit of fortran written 
in that language.
Let me know if interested.

So it looks like srtmchop somehow 'forgets' the entire south border and 
shifts all elevation data 0.0008333 degrees south. Of course when it 
gets to the north border, no data left and makes it all 0.

Cheers,

Eric



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