Fabrizio<div>Thanks. I think thats the right approach. Am going to look into it in detail. From the<br>outside it looks the data format is somewhat complicated.</div><div><br></div><div>--Madhav<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/6/1 Fabrizio Carrai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fabrizio.carrai@gmail.com">fabrizio.carrai@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Not an
expert, but wouldn't be a better approach to use the DEM data ? Maybe the
accuracy wouldn't be great everywhere but the coverage should be more
extended.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">F.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model</a></font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Messaggio originale-----<br><b>Da:</b>
<a href="mailto:talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-bounces@openstreetmap.org</a>]<b>Per
conto di </b>Madhav Vodnala<br><b>Inviato:</b> luned́ 1 giugno 2009
9.24<br><b>A:</b> <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Oggetto:</b> [OSM-talk] newbie
question related to "ele" (elevation)<br><br></font></div>
<div>
<p>There use to be "ele" tag for nodes. I exported a small
area into an OSM file today and <br>I do not see "ele" tag anymore. Is that
removed?.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I saw some discussions around non usefulness of that
tag.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=403" target="_blank">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=403</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>My interest in finding elevation of a given location
(lat,lon).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>What is the best way to find that?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanks<br>Madhav</p></div></blockquote></div>
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