Scenery Generation time

Ok so its been a while since my last post but I have finally reached a
place at work where I can start to commit a bit more time back into a
few projects.

My plan is to start to look at the whole scenery generation again with
Flightgear. I wish to start using more and more shapefile data to build
scenery with.

One of the first things will be to pull the contour layers out of the
shape file and use than as they are more "organic" than what can be
achieved with SRTM data.

SRTM is ok for any North American location but down here in Oz its just
not of high enough quality. I also find that it lacks due to its grided
nature.