[OSM-talk] altitude information

Thomas Walraet thomas at walraet.com
Thu May 31 00:37:09 BST 2007


Christoph Eckert wrote:
> 
>> I am wondering if osm is using the GPS altitude information in any
>> way. At least for bike in areas with significant altiude deltas that
>> would be very useful. If osm is not using them, is there another
>> project which collects and uses them (maybe as an osm overlay).
> 
> I feel the same, but I was told that altitude data is freely available 
> and can be added automatically one day.

Altitude data is already freely available, and GPS precision is really 
really poor on Z-axis.




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