Timothy,
I just ran gdal_contour (from gdal-1.10.1) on
http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM1/Region_01/N38W114.hgt.zip with
the options -i 10 and -a height. I got a shape file of ~95MB. Please check
your data file and gdal version.
BTW, you can directly save the contours into a postgis tab
I am attempting to import contour information into a PostGIS-enabled
database. I am trying to follow the information on this site:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contours#Importing_the_SRTM3_data_.28deprecated.29
and
am using the script. The page states that srtm_generate_hdr.sh is no longer
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