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:Unfortunately the SCI link no longer supplies any geographic information but you have found another official site which still has this information |
:Unfortunately the SCI link no longer supplies any geographic information but you have found another official site which still has this information. [http://damavandmt.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/damavand-elevation.html This page] vigorously upholds 5671m but its author implicitly admits that his own GPS readings are more consistent with 5610m than 5671m, even if 5610m is a bit too low. While there is a GPS consensus around 5625-5630m from GPS, the 2007 GPS survey by Petter Bjorstad included a reading of -17m taken from the nearby Caspian Sea which is actually -28m, which suggests that the [[geoid]] model used by 2007 GPS devices is locally more than 10m too high. The highest 3" cell in [[SRTM]] data is 5595m and in 1" [[ASTER]] data is 5604m, that is clear evidence that 5671m is too high. [[User:Viewfinder|Viewfinder]] ([[User talk:Viewfinder#top|talk]]) 15:51, 11 August 2013 (UTC) |
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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 14:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Monte Pissis
Made some modification. Let me think what do you think. --Silvio1973 (talk) 10:15, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Damavand and SCI link
Hello Viewfinder. The first citation in the Mount Damavand article contains the footnote on the elevation. The first sentence reads: "The 5,610 metre height given here is from the Statistical Centre of Iran, which states that "the highest point in Iran is Mount Damāvand being 5,610 metres high"." That particular link to the SCI is dead and currently the website for Statistical Centre of Iran doesn't contain any information at all on geographic facts that I could find. I have added another link to the end of that statement that sources the exact quote, but it's from an Iran Embassy site.
Do you know how best to fix this? I know you are not the original author, but you have contributed that footnote (which was a section originally) in the past and I thought I would ask before tagging the link.
BTW, I have made the first steps in getting the elevation corrected in virtually all languages of Wikipedia that have an article on the peak. It may help me to be armed with that SCI source. Wish me luck. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 21:31, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the SCI link no longer supplies any geographic information but you have found another official site which still has this information. This page vigorously upholds 5671m but its author implicitly admits that his own GPS readings are more consistent with 5610m than 5671m, even if 5610m is a bit too low. While there is a GPS consensus around 5625-5630m from GPS, the 2007 GPS survey by Petter Bjorstad included a reading of -17m taken from the nearby Caspian Sea which is actually -28m, which suggests that the geoid model used by 2007 GPS devices is locally more than 10m too high. The highest 3" cell in SRTM data is 5595m and in 1" ASTER data is 5604m, that is clear evidence that 5671m is too high. Viewfinder (talk) 15:51, 11 August 2013 (UTC)