[Xastir] help with topo lines overlayed

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:

>
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Jason Hitesman wrote:
>
> >  I can't figure out where to get the data files to do topo lines for
> > my area.
> >
> > Any more detailed pointers?
>
> No, but I'll share a rude little surprise I got: the SDTS data isn't
> 100% complete.
>
> For example, there isn't very much 1:24k (aka LARGE_SCALE) hypsography
> data for Alabama, and there are holes in the 1:100k coverage, too, so
> that I can't get contours for all of the areas where I live, work, and
> play.

Yea, same for my area.  I have most of what I'm interested covered
between 1:100k and 1:24k files, but I'd really like to have 1:24k
for each quad in my county for SAR purposes.  1:100k doesn't cut it
for SAR.  Still, free data is free data, and I'm lucky to have what
I have.

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