I have now gotten it to work in qgis, however, how can I best export it for 
Osmand? I do have Mapc2mapc, but i cannot find any good formats to export 
it as.

Op vrijdag 10 juli 2020 11:12:05 UTC+2 schreef Mika Van de wiel:
>
> 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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