I recommend USGS maps. GNIS is based on some automatic processing. It's much lower on steep peaks. I found even more difference than your example.
On 23 Oct 2010, at 5:52 , Nakor wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking at peaks in Glacier National Park. There are quite a few that > have been imported from GNIS. NPS has also a database of such peaks. My issue > is that the databases are not consistent. If I take for instance Mt Cleveland: > > > GNIS: 48.9250000 , -113.8480556 3175m (10417ft) > NPS: 48.9227541, -113.8472346 3190m (10466ft) > > That's a little bit more than 1/8 mile off horizontal and 50 ft off vertical. > Is there any other source of information to try and figure out what is the > correct data? > > Thanks, > > N. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
