Post by rubl on Mar 19, 2016 14:07:52 GMT 7
"Ben Nevis embiggened by a metre
Now a tad taller, thanks to GPS
The Scottish mountain of Ben Nevis is now a officially a metre taller at 1,345m, thanks to Ordnance Survey measurements gleaned using GPS.
To be precise, the peak lies at 1,344.527m, just a tad higher than the last reading taken back in 1949, when 20 surveyors took 20 nights* to obtain a rounded figure of 1,344m, using "hundreds of pounds of kit hauled up the mountain".
This time around, a mere three operatives deployed a "geodetic survey grade GPS receiver" for two hours, although they did have to suffer some typical local weather in the process.
"
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/ben_nevis_grows/
Now a tad taller, thanks to GPS
The Scottish mountain of Ben Nevis is now a officially a metre taller at 1,345m, thanks to Ordnance Survey measurements gleaned using GPS.
To be precise, the peak lies at 1,344.527m, just a tad higher than the last reading taken back in 1949, when 20 surveyors took 20 nights* to obtain a rounded figure of 1,344m, using "hundreds of pounds of kit hauled up the mountain".
This time around, a mere three operatives deployed a "geodetic survey grade GPS receiver" for two hours, although they did have to suffer some typical local weather in the process.
"
www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/18/ben_nevis_grows/
