[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap-dev Digest, Vol 114, Issue 93

Wed Jan 24 00:53:11 GMT 2018

> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:15:07 +0000
> From: Gerd Petermann <gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com>
> To: Development list for mkgmap <mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Open source GIS systems and DEM
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I have never used any GIS system. I just download zipped hgt files from e.g.
> http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/Coverage%20map%20viewfinderpanoramas_org3.htm
> unzip them into one dir called srtm3 and feed that to mkgmap.
>
> Gerd
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von EthnicFood IsGreat <ethnicfoodisgreat at gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Januar 2018 15:48:54
> An: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] Open source GIS systems and DEM
>
> Hello.  For those of you that use an open source GIS system, I would
> like to ask you why you chose the one you use.  When developing the
> DEM functionality for mkgmap, is a certain system preferred?  I have
> GRASS installed, but I keep hearing about QGIS.
>
> Mark Bradley
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I guess I didn't make myself clear.  I have already successfully created 
a DEM for my Garmin map.  In a general sense, I was just wondering what 
is the preferred open source GIS system for the users of this mailing 
list.  For example, to display the raw SRTM data directly.

Mark