[OSM-talk-ie] Summits imported from mountainviews.ie

Just re-subscribed. The MV import was done in Jan 2009 (eek!) after myself and Dermot met with Simon. Before import there was a total of 40 Irish summits in OSM. Back then, the whole Irish map was a whole lot of nothing - we didn't even have county boundaries - just shows how much progress we mad

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Summits imported from mountainviews.ie

I'm a member of mountainviews.ie so familiar with their maps and information. I do know they have members of the community that have access to / borrowed high-quality surveying equipment which has resulted in the comprehensive dataset they have. I would not be surprised if there have been updates

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Summits imported from mountainviews.ie

On 29/11/2019, Donal Hunt wrote: > The latest major revision of WGS 84 is also referred to as "Earth > Gravitational Model 1996" (EGM96), first published in 1996, with revisions > as recent as 2004. This model has the same reference ellipsoid as WGS 84, > but has a higher-fidelity geoid (roughly 1

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Summits imported from mountainviews.ie

And for those (like me) who are not up to speed on how peaks are measured… The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard for use in cartography , geodesy , and satellite navigation

[OSM-talk-ie] Summits imported from mountainviews.ie

Hi, I've just fixed Lugnaquilla's "ele" tag to use the EGM96 system, as opposed to the WGS84 one: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77737107 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele?uselang=en That one was reported by an OSM note, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of the natural=peak h