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

2010-05-01 Thread Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 22:32, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com 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.

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 robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 March 2010 22:32, Andy Allan

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 robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com 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

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 robin.paul...@gmail.com 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?

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

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 11:28, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz 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: 

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

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 18 March 2010 10:47, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu 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

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

2010-03-18 Thread Robin Paulson
On 19 March 2010 01:35, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com 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

[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

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 differently to

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,