Quote Originally Posted by zacs7 View Post
True, and what's really poor is that some news stations in my country use Google earth to show where places are... Ie it jumps from Australia to Iraq for example.

How do they get the height of the terrain? Laser from a satellite?
For most places, surveys of the surface has been done to give you elevation lines, so that could be the way they get that info.

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Mats