[Marble-devel] SRTM Tiles

[Niko Sams]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 23:22, Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 19:59:24 Florian Eßer wrote:
>> I noticed that right now, we have two different terms in the code
>> meaning the same thing: "Altitude" (class AltitudeModel) and "Elevation"
>> (class ElevationProfileFloatItem).
>
> Yes, I feel that there is a slight difference in usage:
>
> * Altitude is usually used to describe the property of a certain geospatial
> point (as in: "the mountain has an altitude of 3000m").
> * Elevation describes the altitude variation or its nature of a set of data
> points (as in: "have a look at the elevation profile of that route").
>
> KML (and our GeoData classes) are using Altitude.
Apperently both are used as in "elevation profile" or "altitude profile";
Google has 7.8M results for elevation profile, and 22,6M for altitude profile

according to this:
http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/1996-December/019902.html
elevation would be more correct.

I'd say a native speaker should decide that. Or just use Altitude as
that's already
used.

Niko