Re: Google Earth: Elevation of water?

Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> As I move the hand pointer across a lake, the displayed data for
>> 'Elevation' plainly varies, so I assume it must be the altitude above
>> sea level of the ground at that point? It plainly cannot be the
>> surface!
>
> See: http://edu-observatory.org/gps/height.html
>
>>
>> For example, I'm looking at Ardingly Lake ('ardingly, sussex, uk').
>> Other mapping programs I use such as Memory Map etc, tell me its
>> altitude is 174 ft, yet GE shows wide variations throughout.
>>
>> Yet, inconsistently, the English Channel is correctly shown as 0 ft
>> throughout, as is the Atlantic Ocean (give or take a foot or two).
>>
>> Anyone know what's going on here please?
>>

Thanks, but you're both technically way over my head! What are
SRTM3ArcSec files? And that page from Sam is full of techno-babble and
acronyms that leave me cold. Is an answer possible in the same simple
terms in which I couched the question please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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