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  Re: Request *.dem and *.hgt format  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 18 Jan 2011 02:53:55
Message: <op.vphuv4rjufxv4h@xena>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:10:15 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Am 17.01.2011 20:52, schrieb Nekar Xenos:
>
>> "Height files have the extension .HGT and are signed two byte integers.
>> The
>> bytes are in Motorola "big-endian" order with the most significant byte
>> first,
>> directly readable by systems such as Sun SPARC, Silicon Graphics and
>> Macintosh.
>> DEC Alpha and most PCs use Intel ("little-endian") order so some
>> byte-swapping
>> may be necessary. Heights are in meters referenced to the WGS84 geoid.
>> Data
>> voids are assigned the value -32768."
>
> That's pretty meager; some information would be needed about the number  
> of columns & rows, and how this format deals with the spheroid shape of  
> earth.

http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/Documentation/

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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