[Tagging] Elevation and height on vertical features

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Fri Jan 8 18:51:35 UTC 2016


Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> writes:

>> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>> But I get it that the USGS surely publishes mountain heights
>> somehow.
>> I have asked, and so far I have not gotten an answer as to where I can find the data.
>> 
> Is this the type of data you are looking for?
>
>  http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=EW7674

No - that is the height of a disc which is near the top of the mountain,
which is (probably) different than the height of the mountain.
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