Where can I find out the altitude above sea level of my house?

Answer 1

Try your local street atlas. Contour lines should be fairly accurate. Alternately, try Google Earth. My house on the street atlas is 42 metres above sea level, while on Google Earth, it is 32 metres. That's not too bad a difference I suppose. Mind you, sea level on Google Earth was at 3 metres. Does that mean that my house is really at 29 metres according to them, or is the tide in??

Answer 2

depends on how accurate you want it to be
look on a detailed (large scale) Ordnance Survey Map. no the landranger but more detailed

see if you have a mate with a GPS.... most GPS systems have the ability to give an altitude. a word of caution.. Id take several readings preferably over several hours and average the altitude give.. I've seen errors of around 50..100'ft in altitude. Theoreticaly it could be out by as little as 1..3 metres (3..10ft), or it could be as much as 100m/100yds

Answer 3

There are two possible ways -
1) If you have the survey plat to your house, and you should, there should be elevations of all corners of your house.
2) If you don't have the survey plat, go to the courthouse and look it up, then you can pull the elevations from there.

Answer 4

You could get an OS map (Ordinance Survey map) or go to your town hall or courthouse and ask for it. You could also go to your library, they should have plans of the town.

Answer 5

Go to the link and then click, 'Get a map now', then put in your post code. The contour lines are in metres.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/

Answer 6

In your kitchen.

You'll need a good candy thermometer. Boil fresh water.

http://www.biggreenegg.com/boilingPoint.htm