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From now on, we will assume that you are using SRTM-3 data. Unless otherwise noted, the process for SRTM-1 is identical.  
From now on, we will assume that you are using SRTM-3 data. Unless otherwise noted, the process for SRTM-1 is identical.  


Create a new folder in your <tt>TerraGearWork/Data/</tt> folder called <tt>SRTM-30/</tt>. Now download appropriate data from ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm. You want ALL .hgt.zip files covering the area you want to create. Depending on the size of your scenery, there may be quite a few. The reason why the directories are called SRTM-30 is because genapts (a tool we will meet further on) will look for a few known, hardcoded directories in it’s working directory. SRTM-30 is one of them and this is the least confusing in that list.
Create a new folder in your <tt>TerraGearWork/Data/</tt> folder called <tt>SRTM-30/</tt>. Now download appropriate data from ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm. You want ALL .hgt.zip files covering the area you want to create. Depending on the size of your scenery, there may be quite a few. The reason why the directories are called SRTM-30 is because genapts (a tool we will meet further on) will look for a few known, hard-coded directories in its working directory. SRTM-30 is one of them and this is the least confusing in that list.


Unzip all of the .hgt.zip files using your favorite software.
Unzip all of the .hgt.zip files using your favorite software.
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