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It seems that something went wrong with the elevation model of Greenland. Since a few days I have some caches of Greenland with anormal elevation values (like GC1Y8EH or GC2AGQQ or GC20EV9 - all in the same area of middle west Greenland)

Maybe this free elevation model of Greenland will be a better major source:

Elevation Model of Greenland

in Bug reports by smellfooth (4.8k points)

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There is a very new information about elevations from PGC:

https://project-gc.com/Home/News

12-17 - Gifting, Labs and Elevations

Elevation data

We have been fiddling with the elevation on and off for a few years now. Actually, we have probably spent too much time on it. There aren't any sources which are 100% correct, and in fact, most sources have quite big cons in some area. Google's elevation services seem to be the best, which we have used. But a few years back they added a cost to it that wasn't feasible, not even worth considering. Since then we have been trying several different approaches.

Earlier this year we started to use a source called Mapzen. It's actually a merge of several other sources. The idea is to use the source that's best in the area it's best in. We have slowly been converting our data from our old, to data received from this system. After 1-2 months of progress we found out that there were some real discrepancies in many of the zones where differen sub-sources were close to each other. Sometimes values way higher than Mount Everest were returned in areas that were close to sea level. We then made some fail-safes in our end, and restarted processing data.

About now we are back when we were as furthest, with about 30% of our data converted to the new elevation system. We will keep converting data slowly and by time we will catch up, hopefully with a better end-result.

Note that the elevation data probably never will be perfect. We are using sources available to get as good data as we can. It's not feasible for us to manually review and update elevation data for millions of positions on the earth. Due to that we have decided that we don't make manual exceptions at all. However, cases which are wildly off will be investigated, analyzed and hopefully countered.

by micha_de (7.1k points)
edited by micha_de
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As far as I know PGC uses OpenTopoData.

The underlying data is an overview of manageable services. It is an existing dataset summary and seems to be the best for each area. Kartverket for Norway, LINZ for protection and EUDEM for Europe.

ArcticDEM strips of 5 meter mosaics across all of the land north of 60° latitude, including Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden

So not PGC is responsible for the elevation data. It only uses the ArcticDEM for Greenland.
by supertwinfan (19.6k points)
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