The great script processing height lines from srtm data processed its last tile on 2008-11-10, 15:31h. The second quadrant took the most time, as it contains huge portions of the landmasses in Africa, Europe and Russia.
Some particular tiles are missing for some reason, and the “border” tiles (north-, south-, east- and westmost tiles) haven’t been processed at all. srtm2osm cannot cope with longitudes like 180 and -180 or latitudes like -90 and 90. My attempt to deduct one tenth of those values led to unacceptable system resource usage by srtm2osm. Probably I will not care much about those tiles and process them any time later. But I need to identify and process the other aforementioned tiles.