Help:Elevation

Metric elevation should be displayed first for areas not exclusively within the United States or Liberia.

• Precise inline elevations in meters can use wikitext like "an elevation of {{convert|491|m|0|abbr=in}}" to display "an elevation of {{convert|491|m|0|abbr=in}}."
• Less precise inline elevations in meters can use wikitext like "an elevation of about {{convert|500|m|abbr=in}}" to display "an elevation of about {{convert|500|m|abbr=in}}."
• To use an elevation in meters as an adverb, use wikitext like "the {{convert|4805.59|m|0|abbr=in|adj=on}} summit" to display "the {{convert|4805.59|m|0|abbr=in|adj=on}} summit."

Elevation in feet should be displayed first for areas solely within Liberia, the United States, or a U.S. territory.

• Inline elevations in feet{{efn|name=GNIS1|The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) displays elevations in both meters and international feet. All GNIS elevations are rounded to the nearest whole meter. Elevations in international feet are created by dividing the elevation in meters by 0.3048 and rounding to the nearest whole international foot. This means that GNIS elevations in international feet will skip values which do not correspond to a whole meter, e.g., from {{convert|30|m|0|abbr=in}} to {{convert|31|m|0|abbr=in}}.}}{{efn|name=GNIS2|The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) will have two separate feature listings for a populated place that is also a civil entity, e.g., a municipality or a census-designated place. The feature listing for a populated place will usually focus on the community center, while the feature listing for a civil entity will usually focus on the centroid of the entity. In some cases, these two locations may be a significant distance and elevation apart. For example, the GNIS gives the location of the populated place of Los Angeles, California as {{coord|34.0522342|-118.2436849|type:city_region:US-CO_source:GNIS|name=Los Angeles, California}} at an elevation of {{convert|292|ft|0}}, while it gives the location of the City of Los Angeles, California as {{convert|18.58|mi|2}} away at {{coord|34.1613851|-118.5399543|type:city_region:US-CO_source:GNIS|name=City of Los Angeles, California}} at an elevation of {{convert|837|ft|0}}. In this particular case, the populated place listing is much more representative of the city.}}{{efn|The United States Census Bureau provides precise centroids for the census geometries calculated for each decennial census. The United States Geological Survey [https://apps.nationalmap.gov/epqs/ Elevation Point Query Service (EPQS)] can be used to find the approximate elevation of a geographic coordinate location.}} can use wikitext like "an elevation of {{convert|292|ft|0}}" to display "an elevation of {{convert|292|ft|0}}."
• Precise inline elevations in meters (such as those from a [https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/datasheets/ National Geodetic Survey data sheet]) should use wikitext like "an elevation of {{convert|4401.2|m|0|order=flip}}" to display "an elevation of {{convert|4401.2|m|0|order=flip}}."
• To use an elevation in feet as an adverb, use wikitext like "the {{convert|14271|ft|0|adj=on}} summit" to display "the {{convert|14271|ft|0|adj=on}} summit."
• For GNIS help, see Help:GNIS data for U.S. infoboxes.

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