[Tagging] Topographic Prominence for Peaks

John Willis johnw at mac.com
Thu Sep 27 07:11:48 UTC 2018



Javbw

> On Sep 27, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How do you determine the height of the saddle / peak?

There is a lot of GIS data available for named points. 

Also, there is a lot of topography available as well, so someone manually mapping certian areas could create a pretty decent prominence value - from where they choose to measure. The issue a lot of people bring up is the "where you measure from" is relative to some other point - some people will assume different points are the "proper" point. 

In some places this won't be an issue, in other places - a big issue. 

Hopefully there is enough topographic information to programaticaly create values to check, rather than everyone choosing their own points. 

Javbw. 


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