This is a tiny repository for a script to read NASA SRTM hgt files, to put the data into 3d modeling programs.

Example:

>>> import hgt_reader
>>> file_path = '/Users/benjamin/projects/ActiveMatter/data/N31E034.hgt'
>>> data = hgt_reader.read(file_path)
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(data[-1][-5:])
[(34.99666666666667, 31.996666666666666, 585),
 (34.997500000000002, 31.997499999999999, 587),
 (34.998333333333335, 31.998333333333335, 590),
 (34.999166666666667, 31.999166666666667, 594),
 (35.0, 32.0, 598)]

As you can see in the example above, read() is the primary function to be used. Read take an optional arc_seconds argument that can be set to either 3 or 1:

def read(filePath, arc_seconds=3):