On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Steve Friedl <st...@unixwiz.net> wrote:
> This issue has come up as well with the height of mountain peaks; those of > us who hike in the mountains in the US know peak heights *only* in feet, > but OSM seems to reflect this in meters; this is entirely unhelpful to > local hikers. Us locals think of Sierra Peak as 4050 feet, not 928 meters. This has to do with the USGS GNIS data, which records these heights officially in meters.
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