David Megginson writes:
> 
> Curtis L. Olson writes:
> 
>  > For what it's worth, when I was looking into this, I found some
>  > examples of runways with their ends literally at least 100' different
>  > in elevation.  Most aren't nearly that far off, but there are a
>  > few.
> 
> For a 10,000 ft runway, that would require less than a 1% continuous
> grade, so it's not all that surprising.
> 
> It will be a very good thing when we can take threshold elevations
> from FAA and DAFIF data.  The SRTM/DEM data, however, is just too
> coarse -- that's why I'm suggesting flattening for now.

Have you tried preinserting some of the the higher res srtm1 data 
to terra innide of and on the edges of the airport polygons ?

This shoud be quite accurate.

Cheers

Norman

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