Re: Feature request: info about elevation

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 05/02/2014 02:18 PM, Paolo Leoni wrote:
> Hi all,
> thank you for the very interesting Gnome Maps application.
>
> I've a simple feature request for you: can you implement elevation 
> info in Gnome Maps? OpenStreetMap integrate it (through tag "ele").
>
> Thank you anyway.

For someone who's more of a noob regards to OSM. What does elevation 
mean? How high up something is?
How would it be used? In what situations does it help me as a user?
- Andreas