[OSM-talk] NMEA altitude versa barometric altitude

Stephan Schildberg schildberg at scoid.de
Sat Sep 2 16:18:03 BST 2006


Andy Robinson schrieb:
> Stephan,
>
> Welcome to OSM :-)
>
> At present nothing other that the latitude and longitude from the GPX file
> is used. However the gpx files are not thrown away and might one day be
> re-imported to drag more information out of them. They are of course also
> available to anyone to download if you choose to make them public so someone
> else may have a use for the extra data.
>
> Having said that, altitude accuracy just from satellite data (ie no
> barometric or other information) is not a great deal of use anyway due to
> the poor accuracy. There is also free height data available to place
> contours on maps so elevation information is not really critical for OSM at
> this point in time.
>
> Hope that helps.
Thank you Andy.

I hope for altitude metrics will be a solution in the near future.

Stephan.




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