DIGITAL CONTOUR DATA
The above files were last revised on 3 March 2008. A few errors that have come to light since then have been collected and uploaded here.
The files are in ASCII text format. Coastline, rivers, lakes, ridges, valleys (usually determined from streams), and spot heights are included. There is documentation in each tile.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russian border areas and Ural mountain areas are covered at 1:100,000. Areas east of the Ural mountains are not covered. Other areas are covered at 1:200,000.
The projection is Pulkovo 42.
The files are named as for SRTM HGT files, with an added character to denote minutes of latitude (s=0,c=20,n=40). Each 1:100,000 tile covers 60'x20'; each 1:200,000 tile covers 120'x40'.
All of the mainland of European Russia that is not covered by SRTM data is mow included.
Download also: Iceland. The Iceland tile guide can be found here; to translate, subtract the last digit from 9, and replace the other digit(s), null-11, with A-L respectively. There are slight differences, in that each text tile covers exactly 44km x 40km. The projection is local Icelandic.
