Hi,

for Europe, you could also use the EU-DEM (
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eu-dem) "a hybrid product based
on SRTM and ASTER GDEM data fused by a weighted averaging approach" => full
compatibility with SRTM, but with better data ;)

Sylvain


2014-08-28 20:49 GMT+02:00 Peter Barth <osm-p...@won2.de>:

> Hi all,
>
> I created a new challenge for MapRoulette: "Fix waterway direction".
>
> As the waterway's direction in OSM denotes the direction of the water's
> flow, I started to compare them to SRTM. This leads to more than 1
> million wrong directions for Europe only. Many times SRTM is right,
> however, due to data errors, not every time. That's why I created this
> challenge.
>
> A more detailed description can also be found on my user diary here:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Peda/diary/23632
>
> I started with the really easy ones and only Europe for now. I will
> upload further tasks soon, worldwide coverage will follow, too.
>
> Hope you enjoy this challenge,
> Peda
>
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