[mkgmap-dev] Instructions to make contour maps

Wed Aug 19 16:48:36 BST 2009

Paul <news at pointdee.co.uk> writes:

> Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
>> On 08/19/2009 12:56 AM, Nolan Clifford wrote:
>> 
>>> I spent a lot of time today trying to figure out the above and did not  
>>> succeed.  Would anyone be willing to produce a step by step guide on  
>>> how to achieve it please?
>> 
>> I did it this way:
>> 
>> Create OSM file with contours:
>> 
>> mono Srtm2Osm.exe -large -cat 100 20 -step 10 -bounds1 10 20 30 40 -o srtm.osm
>> 
>
> Unless you already have data for Srtm2Osm then this approach will not
> work as NASA has moved the data and Srtm2Osm is no longer being updated.

I was able to make it work with this release:
<http://topo.geofabrik.de/Srtm2Osm-1.7.10.0.zip>.  The source code in
SVN appears to contain some fixes to change the URL as well.

> Groundtruth (the successor to Srtm2Osm)

I'll try it next. :-)

/Simon