Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-05-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, i can make a nice Garmin Contour Map for New Zealand with accompaning latest OSM routable installer & dem files for fun. I'll store it on archive.org when its done. Cheers, Sam On 4/30/10, Robin Paulson wrote: > On 19 March 2010 22:32, Andy Allan wrote: >>> i don't know what a DEM is unf

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-04-30 Thread Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 22:32, Andy Allan wrote: >> i don't know what a DEM is unfortunately >> >> this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model > > Sorry, my bad. Yes, that's what I was meaning. It's basically the raw > data behind contours, hillshading and so on. http://koordinates.com/l

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan wrote: >> Are you being offered a 20m DEM, or just the contours generated from a >> DEM? The DEM is more useful (it's a grid of spot-heights) since it can >> be used to generate hillshading etc too. > > i d

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan wrote: > Are you being offered a 20m DEM, or just the contours generated from a > DEM? The DEM is more useful (it's a grid of spot-heights) since it can > be used to generate hillshading etc too. i don't know what a DEM is unfortunately this?: http://en.wikiped

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 10:47, Tom Hughes wrote: >> i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the >> precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm >> data. >> >> how would i go about getting these into osm? from what i can tell, >> contours are generally handled d

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 11:28, Tim McNamara wrote: > I would love to get my hands on this to support emergency management > response. I'm part of the Sahana project, which provides open source > disaster planning & response tools.. you can read more about the NZ efforts > here: http://bit.ly/nz-sahana-cl

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the > precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm > data. Are you being offered a 20m DEM, or just the contours generated from a DEM? The DEM is more useful

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-17 Thread Tim McNamara
Robin - I would love to get my hands on this to support emergency management response. I'm part of the Sahana project, which provides open source disaster planning & response tools.. you can read more about the NZ efforts here: http://bit.ly/nz-sahana-cluster Cheers, Tim. On 18 March 2010 10:24,

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Hughes
On 17/03/10 21:24, Robin Paulson wrote: > i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the > precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm > data. > > how would i go about getting these into osm? from what i can tell, > contours are generally handled different

[OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-17 Thread Robin Paulson
i've been offered contours for new zealand under a cc license. the precision is 20m, which i believe is higher than that of the srtm data. how would i go about getting these into osm? from what i can tell, contours are generally handled differently to other data __