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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Will your home be under water when the sea levels rise?

Here is a way to find out what elevation you are residing at:

Go to Melissadata.com
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/addressverify.asp

Enter street address, city, state, ZIP

Click SUBMIT

Get data, note latitude and longitude

Go to TopoZone.com
http://www.topozone.com/

Enter city and state, click SEARCH

Enter latitude and longitude in the Decimal Degrees section
Leave the Coordinate datum radio buttons alone
Click MAP

Then fiddle with map size (large) and resolution (1:25,000 is good). There are Different height units, but most appear to in feet for the USGS maps (brown lines).

Here's hoping you are at least 100 feet above (current) sea level!

posted by Quiddity at 4/12/2006 01:49:00 AM

4 comments

No, but I won't be able to get into my office building; it's just off the Washington, DC National Mall, which was a swamp as recently as the mid-Nineteenth Century.

By Theophylact, at 4/12/2006 6:00 AM

"How to Activate Cookies"

I may be under water, but at least I'll have my privacy (here in Denver).

By brainhell, at 4/12/2006 10:21 AM

If you looked at the web site, your privacy is already been forfeited -- the web server already has your IP address.

By Lefty, at 4/12/2006 5:50 PM

Hayzoo Kristy -- even using an anonymyzer?

By brainhell, at 4/13/2006 4:36 PM