[Talk-us] Systematic problem with GNIS import and elevation tags

Mike Thompson miketho16 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 03:12:45 GMT 2011


Elevations in GNIS are not spot elevations.  They are taken from the
National Elevation Dataset (NED).

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>>
>> [snip] I'm wondering if the person who imported GNIS originally has plans
>> to change
>> ele values that match their GNIS values by
>> (current ele) * 0.3048 = (corrected ele)
>
> No. (I'm one of the people that imported GNIS stuff).
>
>>
>> and if not, how we should handle this as a community.
>>
>
> Change it in your local area if you know the actual value.
>
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