[Freegis-list] SRTM FTP site gone or moved?

[Mario Beauchamp]

Hi Markus,

Markus Neteler wrote:
>>They are in GeoTiff format and you can get them as WRS2 tiles as well as the normal degrees tiles.
> 
> I was interested to understand why you wrote that the original tiles are
> the unfinished product (known), but the GLCF data are sort of finished. To
> my knowledge the data are identical, just re-tiled and stored in GeoTIFF. 

Well, according to the description here:
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/srtm/desc.shtml

it's the unfinished product. But they also state that the finished 
version would be available in September 2004 and this has not happened.

> Yes, the GLCF SRTM data sets are more convenient of course. But 
> the data quality is identical, right?

Maybe you got data that didn't have as many gaps as some others. The 
datasets I have downloaded so far have a lot of missing data...