ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map

[gjackson]

Japan's METI and NASA's JPL announced the release of global elevation data for free in GeoTiff format on June 29th 2009. Could be very useful for those making their own maps.

http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp

cheers

 

[CanuckMariner/Nomad]

Excellent! Thanks for the post Graham! great for Africa and South America.

 

[daverami]

Excellent!