After about 2 years time I’ve updated the Europe contourlines again. As they are a separate download, and each update may cause confusion – I only update them if there are significant improvements in the altitude data.

The following countries have seen major updates:

Germany (especially the Länder of Brandenburg, Sachsen, Bayern)

Great Britain (especially England, Wales, Northern Ireland – Scotland doesn’t have LIDAR data yet as underlying data)

The North of Ireland

Norway

Spain

Some other countries have seen small updates. Also as mkgmap the map compiler was improved – the data size of the contourlines has decreased by about 10% even if the details are still identical.

While under Windows for the Europe continent map the installer will complain if you try to install the Europe map without the updated contourlines download – under macOS you will have to update manually and not forget about it.

I’ve incorporated all altitude data from Sonny that was published since the last updates: https://sonny.4lima.de/

(where there is no LIDAR based data by Sonny, as always I use ALOS World 3D as the main altitude data, and viewfinderpanoramas data for the areas north of N60 and South of S60).