How High/Low is Yours?

[Joakim B]

elevation change when You zoom in since the pointer change unless You have it exactly in the midle of the picture.
It is the elevation of where You have the mouse in the picture.
That is what I have and I think that is what Thomas also had/said.
Hope You find it.

[Mick McLoughlin]

Anthony from an earlier post
Maggi in the layers window tick the terrain box. This puts elevation next to lat & long.


Cheers
Mick

[Maggi Young]

Anthony, when I google earth you it says 110m for your address.
Sandy's at 134m, Jean's at 82m.

[Anthony Darby]

Gosh, wee sister is watching me! Thanks Maggi.

[David Nicholson]

Goodness David, where did you get that? The town down below is Mosgiel where I do my shopping, banking, doctor, post office etc and the picture is taken from about 3 kms from where I live, so far as I can see.

The long, low hill in the backgound is The Maungatua (Maori word maunga = mountain) and though it's low and close to the coast and Dunedin, there are wonderful plants there like Herpolirion novae-zelandiae in its glorious sky blue form, Celmisia argentea and many others and the blue orchid Thelymita venosa along with at least 4 other orchid species. Also of course the super flat cushions of Phyllacne, Donatia and various Dracophyllums. A magical place and only half an hour from the city

Lesley, 
I just Googled Tairi Plain and found the picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taieri_Plains. You really do live in a wonderful part of the world.

[Anthony Darby]

Mmmm. Could be Dunblane fae the Shirramire?

[David Nicholson]

It's quite amazing, to me, when I think about it. In Okotoks, Alberta, Canada I garden at 1053m or 3454 ft.  I've never even seen an ocean or sea.  Our growing season, on average is a mere 112 days. 

I should move down the slope. 

Linda, that's going to take a bit of beating! It's pretty hard for someone born and bred on a small island to think that some people have never seen the sea. It is said that in the UK no-one is more than 72 miles from the sea and  I am about 12 miles away from it as the crow flies on the South Western peninsula of England. My climate is governed by it and any bad weather on the Eastern side of America usually crosses the Atlantic and gives us a taste of it too. Just at present we appear to going through a phase of regular low pressure weather systems following each other across the Atlantic and so far in the last ten days we have had rain on eight of them and strong winds on seven of them. We don't get much frost though so we can't have it all ways can we?  

[David Nicholson]

Mmmm. Could be Dunblane fae the Shirramire?

This Huddersfield lad needs a translation from t'other Huddersfield lad!

[Anthony Darby]

Shirramire = Sheriffmuir, which is a moorland (and famous battle site) up the hill from my side of Dunblane. I'll try to find a pic when I get home. It is the home of the fabled Evelyn Stevens.

[David Nicholson]

........ of Meconopsis fame?

[Maggi Young]

That very one, David. Evelyn and her husband, Lewis have a wonderful garden high on the moor which they have created from scratch around their house which they had built from a little more than a pile of rubble. It is there that Evelyn grows a wide selection of plants, but, most famously, of course, Meconopsis.

[PEAK]

We garden at our 3000 square meters large site in Tyresö, some 30 km SE of Stockholm. The average elevation is something like 40 m, top elevation 46 m and lowest 24 m. (This I know because we are about to bild a new house). As you perhaps realize by these figures we actually own  the top of a hill, close to a bay of the Baltic. Use this link and see an aerial photo of our ground with our (old) house marked

http://tinyurl.com/27gy3b

If you zoom it to maximum (lower left corner), you can actually see our boat laying upside down! This makes me feel a bit sad, because the boat was ruined a few weeks ago in a storm together with the highest water level ever recorded in the Baltic. (We should have left it upside down at our parking space).
I'll insert a pic to give you a feeling of what it looks like at ground level. We have a miximum soil depth of about half a meter, meaning we do grow a lot in pots, meaning constant watering!
The climate of this area is not quite like that of Gothenburg, we only receive about 425 mm (17 inches) of precipitation yearly this is less than half (a third?) than Gothenburg! So seeing our ground you understand that constant watering is essential. Since maximum precipitation is in november and minimum in May we have a bit of Mediterranian climate (but colder).
Our most common weed is Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish Blubell) that self seeds everywhere, we also have a lot of Digitalis purpurea and Anemone nemorosa.
We do love our hill and try to get the new house to fit in disturbing as little as possible!
Cheers

[Anthony Darby]

Maggi, you must have a better version of Google Earth. East of the Cathedral, Dunblane is a badly made tartan travel rug!

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Dunblane from Dumyat.

[Lesley Cox]

What an interesting thread this has turned out to be. Thanks David for asking the first question.

Although just a little way from the sea, I often has the silly thought that John and Anita Watson in Santiago are my next door neighbours. What's a Pacific Ocean between friends?