Hello, this message is maybe a little bit off-topic, but as it deals with free geodata on top of OSM maybe it is of interest for some of you and may save some work:
There is a new hillshade layer (shaded relief) available for (most of) Europe at http://www.osm-wms.de It is suitable as transparent overlay for other online&offline maps in order to increase the placticity of the map. e.g. next to osm-wms.de also OpenRouteService.org is using it now. Thanks a lot to Michael Auer and Magnus Fees and colleagues (Martin Over, Steffen Neubauer, etc.) for processing the data and setting up the WMS&TileCache. Currently it can be used for non-commercial/free applications (as it is based on the SRTM data from CIAT-CSI), similar to http://www.osm-3d.org. This is still in beta test-mode, so the URL/config etc. might change, but we can provide it, if you want to use it already now. In that case we thank you for referencing our work through a link to www.osm-wms.de. have fun best whishes a. zipf http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/ http://www.osm-wms.de http://www.OpenRouteService.org http://www.osm-3d.org _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
