[Xastir] Topo Maps.

[John Ronan]

Hi Dave,


On 12 Feb 2010, at 10:07, Dave H wrote:

> John
> I'm quite interested in using OSM map data - but not sure where to start,
> can you describe the process - I'd really like some decent maps of the UK &
> Ireland.
> 
For the road/rivers etc
I grabbed the shapefile data from
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/

Back on the 4th of July 2009, Carl Makin posted a link to that companys site.

I took his initial dbfawk and did a small bit more. That's with the OSM data.

As to the link I put in the initial post.  That link explained a process for converting the SRTM data into shapefiles that xastir can use (Others will surely comment on whether it is 'fit for purpose'). As I don't have any other real source of free topography data. My question then was if anyone else had generated a dbfawk for this type of topo data or even had any recommentations.

Regards
John



> I've had a look at the linked OSP wiki - and not having juggled map data
> around (aside from the inf2geo coversion too within Xastir) I'm not sure
> where to start still. OpenGIS, I think is part of a distro, so probably
> available - the 202gb Eurasia file might be a problem right now but external
> HDDs are cheap these days (let alone what my ISP might think do to me after
> downloading!), I may have problems with my pc chunking all the data as I
> dont have pcs with loads of memory or >2.7GHz.. or have I got it wrong
> 
> Dave H G0CER
> 
> On 12 February 2010 09:05, John Ronan <jpronans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Finally I get let up for a breath!
>> 
>> I spent last night messing with shapefile topo maps, specifically I used
>> the process here (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contours) to generate
>> 10m,50m,100m topo data.
>> 
>> I started a while back doing dbfawks for the OSM data itself so I must get
>> back to that, but also I now have this new data source.  I was wondering
>> a) if anyone else has already done dbfawk's for this srtm data to make it
>> 'pretty'.
>> b) also is 10m,50m,100m overkill?
>> c) Anyone have a tried and tested method of 'chopping' off parts (I've some
>> of Scotland in my map).
>> 
>> Cheers
>> de John
>> EI7IG
>> 
>> 
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