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Table of contents

1 Elevation examples 1.1 Contributors 1.2 Examples 1.2.1 State High Points 1.2.2 Nepal GPS Waypoints 1.2.3 Waypoints Netherland 1.2.4 Misc 1.3 See Also

Elevation examples

Examples of published elevations (also known as "altitude" or "height") to support the proposed elevation extension to the Geo microformat.

Contributors

• Alexander Graf (http://www.aetherworld.org/), DERI Innsbruck (http://www.deri.at/)
• Andy Mabbett

Examples

State High Points

• http://www.waypoint.org/gps2-list210.html

<tr>
          <th>Abbr</th>
          <th>Date</th>
          <th>State</th>
          <th>Location</th>
          <th>Altitude</th>
          <th>Lat/Long</th>
          <th>GPS Coords</th>
          <th>Topo quad</th>

</tr>

<tr>
          <td>CA</td>
          <td><a href="./batting.500/">7/2/2001</a></td>
          <td><a href="./batting.500/">California</a></td>
          <td>Mount Whitney</td>
          <td>14,494</td>
          <td>36° 35'N,<br>118° 17'W</td>

          <td>36° 34.721'N,<br>118° 17.466'W</td>
          <td>CA Mt. Whitney 1:24,000, Mt. Langley 1:24,000</td>
        </tr>

Nepal GPS Waypoints

• http://gpsnepal.com/waypoint.php?trek=everest

Waypoints Netherland

• http://www.way-points.nl/waypoints/rubriek.asp?cat=2&type=rubriek

Misc

• Used by Wikipedia e.g. Avers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avers); volcanoes in Argentina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Argentina); telescopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_Telescope)
• Used (as "height") by PoI66 in GPS tracks, e.g [1] (http://www.poi66.com/maps/show_earth.php?album=wip&lat=35.58756&lon=27.06803&extent=0.1&title=Beach%20van%20Lefkos%20)
• Used by Great Circle Mapper, e.g BHX (http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX)
• Used by UK Govt. Met Office
  • as "AMSL" = height Above Mean Sea Level e.g. Penkridge Weather station (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/19611990/sites/penkridge.html)
  • as "Altitude above mean sea level" e.g. Coleshill Latest Weather (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wm/coleshill_latest_weather.html)
• GPS Visualizer (http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/) - plots waypoints with altitudes as a profile (http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/profile) (example profile (http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/examples/profile_biking_uc.gif))

See Also

• Geo
• Geo cheatsheet
• Geo examples
• Geo brainstorming - brainstorms and other explorations relating to Geo (and Geo in hCard).
  • see also hCard brainstorming
• Geo advocacy - encourage others to use Geo.
• Geo examples in the wild
• Geo forms part of hcard, so please use:
  • hCard FAQ. If you have any questions about Geo, check the hCard FAQ.
  • hCard feedback
  • hCard issues
• location-formats - research which led to the development of Geo.
• proposed extensions
  • geo-extension-nonWGS84 - extend Geo for representing coordinates on other planets, moons etc.; and for other terrestrial schema
  • geo-extension-elevation - extend Geo for representing altitude
  • geo-extension-waypoints - extend Geo for representing: sets of waypoints; tracks; routes; and boundaries
• Geo profile - draft