Seb, post: 330957, member: 7509 wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3189965/Welsh-mountain-turns-hill-Surveyors-use-GPS-prove-Moelwyn-Mawr-Snowdonia-23mm-short-mountain-classification.html
GPS huh? Until they run levels I wouldn't believe what they are saying. But 25mm? just kick some dirt on it jesh!!!! A real surveyor would know that, hadn't they ever staked grades:-(
Seb, post: 330957, member: 7509 wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3189965/Welsh-mountain-turns-hill-Surveyors-use-GPS-prove-Moelwyn-Mawr-Snowdonia-23mm-short-mountain-classification.html
Seems like there was a movie awhile back with a title something like " went up a hill and came down a mountain". It was about getting a hill reclassified as a mountain. Could this be the same hill/mountain?
No. Not right. If you're measuring a property line, or to cut a board, you measure the nearest fractional foot, but a mountain? You round to the nearest foot and that's its height. Where do you pick the "bottom" of the mountain? Could you move over a foot and get to a point an inch lower? Do you take multiple measurements?
Reclassifying a "mountain" over an inch measurement is absolutely ridiculous.