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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by Sprint on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:05PM (#6360903)
How do you know it is just SRTM?
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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @12:33PM (#6361118)
Sorry, should have made myself clearer. I'm not saying that Google just uses SRTM - I'm sure they throw lots of other sources and general Google Magick in there. But for most people in most places, SRTM is good enough.
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Re:Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs by Sprint on Thursday September 12, 2013 @05:22AM (#6372992)
np and cheers!

Yeah, I think so too. And querying SRTM tiles is prerry simple.

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