J'ai effectivement téléchargé le fichiers des altitudes, il semble que 
l'écart d'altitude s'est très sérieusement réduit et qu'il soit maintenant 
très proche de la réalité. Merci.

I did download the elevation file, it looks like the elevation gap has 
narrowed very seriously and is now very close to reality. Thank you. 

Le dimanche 27 juin 2021 à 16:11:56 UTC+2, Greg Troxel a écrit :

>
> GOUPIL 30101 <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello, have you also observed altitude errors of the order of 40 to 50 
> > meters in addition to the actual altitude? Did you manage to correct 
> this? 
> > Cordially. 
>
> This is complicated:
>
> The android location API returns "height above ellipsoid (HAE)" which
> is not what people call altitude.
>
> osmand is just a client using your phone's GPS (GNSS) receiver.
> First figure out if the phone is ok. Install GPSTest which will show
> "Height Above Ellipsoid" labeled, somewhat confusing, as "Alt", and
> "WGS84 Orthometric Height", which is very close to what people mean by
> altitude as "Alt (MSL)". You will notice that they are different.
>
> To look up the difference between HAE and WGS84 Orthometric Height,
> see
> https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/GeoidEval
>
> osmand has a downloadable map called world altitude correction.
> Without it, osmand displays HAE, and with it, WGS84 Orthometric
> Height, which is effectively a global definition of altitude.
> Make sure you have this installed.
>
> You would be correct to say that this is all unfortunate. That the
> complexity exists is unavoidable, but that you are having to deal with
> it is because of the choices made in writing the Android API.
>

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