[OSM-talk] Imagery parallax error in high altitude areas

[Maarten Deen]

On 2012-04-10 13:45, Arun Ganesh wrote:

> Is there an accurate source for the coordinates of mountain peaks? We
> can check how bad the parallax errors are on the satellite imagery.

Would it even be possible to identify mountain peaks on satellite 
imagery? I've been looking at Mont Blanc and Everest and I can not tell 
from the images where the peak should be.

A source of coordinates is Wikipedia of course. No idea how definitive 
that data is though.

Regards,
Maarten