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Not wrong, but I think most folks are interested in lat-long.

If you have lat-long and place it on a pre-canned map, then it's unlikely that most people will be either underground or in the air, and so whatever the surface elevation of the lat-long on the map is, that's most likely (>99% of the time?) where the person is.

At least from a UX/responsiveness perspective, this is probably a good way to do the math. (In the background get a more accurate 3D fix.)



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