elevation profile

How high are you? That is…What is your elevation?

April 13, 2022 by Randy Majors

A quick announcement of two Map Tool enhancements on the randymajors.org website. Check out how high you are… ok, your current elevation ;) with the What Is My Current Elevation? tool. It looks like this: The tool uses your device location, and so is typically more accurate on a mobile device with GPS. With the other tool enhancement, you can determine your current ZIP Code based based on your device location with the What ZIP Code Am I In? tool. Note that this one works based with larger ZIP Code areas. These tools can both be found in the Current … Read more

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Where It’s At: Drop nearly 15,000 feet in just over 85 miles in the Contiguous U.S.

January 28, 2021 by Randy Majors

Where It’s At is an occasional feature that uses maps to show interesting stuff about our world. At least interesting to map geeks like me :) For this inaugural post: Where can you can drop nearly 15,000 feet of elevation in just over 85 miles in the contiguous United States? A clue: these two points also happen to be the highest elevation point and the lowest elevation point in the contiguous U.S. Answer: Mount Whitney, California to Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California: And here’s the elevation profile along that line: Note that it’s not a nice easy descent along … Read more