Hmm, that would be awesome! we in holland got free hightmaps, but i believe 
you can only download them in a few formats. if you could send me the 
tutorial on how to do it in qgis and your nodes I think i can try it!

Op vrijdag 10 juli 2020 03:21:06 UTC+2 schreef A Thompson:
>
> Hi! I'm no expert, but have experimented with this sort of thing. As far 
> as I know:
>
> OsmAnd's elevation data comes from the NASA SRTM/ASTER data that is 
> available freely for the whole world except towards the poles. This has a 
> horizontal resolution of 1 arc-second, about 30 metres. The vertical 
> accuracy varies but seems to be no better than +/-5m. So it doesn't make 
> sense to have contour line spacing too close.
>
> OsmAnd's contour lines are pre-computed in the download, rather than being 
> generated dynamically on your device from raw elevation data, so you can't 
> try closer spacing just by tweaking the rendering styles.
>
> Many countries are providing open access to more accurate DTM/DEM data 
> from LIDAR surveys. In the UK we have this only for flood modelling, which 
> if one's interested in hills is the opposite of what one wants! LIDAR data 
> can be amazingly accurate, e.g. you can see the shape of a car. If you have 
> such data, you can generate your own contour lines in QGIS and get them to 
> show in OsmAnd. If you're interested I could post some notes I made when I 
> tried it, but it requires a little dedication. I found that I could now see 
> features such as cliffs and quarries that had not been marked as such on 
> OSM, but for me it wasn't worth the large file sizes of what I had 
> generated. That was three years ago when OsmAnd's minimum spacing was 10m - 
> I hadn't noticed that the "high" setting now gives 5m. This shows my 
> missing quarries, but must be the limit for SRTM data. (Unless OsmAnd is 
> now tapping in to LIDAR? I can't find any information on that.)
>
> Just google any of the terms I used if you're not familiar! I hope that's 
> of interest.
>
> On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 7:53:18 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> So i live in the Netherlands, and the landscape is pretty flat here. 
>> However we still have some small relief in the landscape. Most of these 
>> little hills are no more then 20m but they can be pretty steep. Therefore i 
>> would like to have contour lines to better estimate the terrain. However, 
>> the standard contour lines in Osmand only come in three set intervals, Low, 
>> medium and high. I beleive the high setting displays the contour lines at 
>> 5m, but this is still not enough. Is there a way to get these contour lines 
>> to display at a custom interval, like 1m? is this maybe possible by editing 
>> the rendering file? i would love to hear back from you guys!
>
>

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