That could be someone converting from feet to meters. On Jan 8, 2016 10:32 AM, "Tom Pfeifer" <t.pfei...@computer.org> wrote:
> Colin Smale wrote on 2016/01/08 17:47: > >> How did all the elevation data get into OSM in the first place? >> > > GPS is notoriously bad at determining elevation/altitude. > > Beside intentionally tagged elevation such as peaks, I found a lot > of nodes in the data, that appear to come directly from > GPX trackpoints/waypoints. They sometimes have an incredible > number of digits for resolution such as 395.38509818 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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