Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-13 Thread Karl Newman
While GNIS might not be perfectly accurate in geoposition, it is the authoritative set of geographic names for the US. It contains features that are on no other map or spatial database. Until now, anyway. ;-) Karl ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-13 Thread David Lynch
If you go to the Board of Geographic Names site (http://geonames.usgs.gov/), it indicates that all elevations are from the National Elevation Dataset. (Which is probably what Garmin uses as well.) NED doesn't really have the spatial resolution to resolve features as small as the exact tops of