Hi
I think before having such a container we would need to have a clear idea what hgt sources are best. I have no objective method to compare hgt sources (is there any?) but I have done some test comparing contour lines generated from different sources. Copernicus (EU-DEM) data has been commented to be better than viewfinderpanoramas (VFP), but at least visually, the later seems better to me. The problem with VFP is that 1'' data is available only in a few places. SRTM1 seems to produce better results than EU-DEM, but in some places it has a lot of voids. Just my findings. If you are interested, I can post some screenshots for comparison.

El 27/01/18 a las 09:54, Gerd Petermann escribió:
Hi all,

I am not aware of any erros in r4091, so I think it is time to merge it into 
trunk.

I see only one problem: HGT data changes rarely, so I'd prefer to do the costly 
DEM calculations
only once and be able to store the results.
I've already described how to do this here [1] but I'd prefer to have a 
container format that allows
mkgmap to extract the Garmin DEM bitstream data for a given lat/lon pair from a 
file.
Such a container could contain the DEM data for one or more dem-dist values. It 
could be empty first
and grow each time you calculate DEM for a new area. In subsequent executions 
of mkgmap it would
check if the container already contains the data for the wanted area.
Advantage would be a faster tile compilation and less power consumption, 
disadvantage would be the
additional disk space and higher complexity.

[1] 
http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Performance-with-zipped-hgt-files-tp5909756p5909801.html

Gerd





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