This project provides a few CLI commands to download, extract and import HGT data into a SQL database.

It has been tested on python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 and works with PostgreSQL with and without PostGIS extension.

• Installation

• The CLI commands :

  • gmalt-hgtget : download and extract HGT zip files
  • gmalt-hgtread : read an elevation value in a HGT file
  • gmalt-hgtload : load the HGT data in a SQL database

Feel free to make a pull request for any of the items in this list :

• Provide a bash script in case the executable raster2pgsql is present
• Improve interface with parser using namedtuple
• Support MySQL without GIS extension
• Support MySQL with GIS extension
• gmalt-hgtload should support importing a single file instead of the content of a folder