[Tagging] Elevation and height on vertical features

[Tod Fitch]

> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I guess that comes down to site surveys then. It happens that the particular one I linked to is, within a few inches, at the highest point on that peak. I only know that because I am very familiar with that mountain.

But I believe the old USGS topo maps have only a couple types of spot elevations on them with the icon indicating the type. And the ones with the point inside a triangle are actually for the USGS benchmark on the mountain which, as you point out, may not be the highest point.
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