heights of hills in tabular form

[simonineaston]

Hi Folks,
am thoroughly enjoying my arrival in the wonderful wacky world of digital data and my latest fad is navigation-by-GPS which I know some of you cheery folks does do with aplomb... What I'd like to know is if there is data out there that lets me see heights of hills in a table.
Everyone knows you can see a spot height on a map, but it'd be really useful to be able to compare the heights of local hills in tabular form.

[AndyK]

Interesting question (for a certain nerdy value of 'interesting' )... are you thinking hill summits, highest points on rights of way or highest points on roads?

[simonineaston]

On this occasion, highest points of rights-of-way, but the principle could equally apply to roads - I'm mainly walking at the mo' but come spring I expect I'll root out my tyre-pump and get back on my road bike...

[Mick F]

.......see heights of hills in a table .........

Can't do the tabular form, but if you use any of the on-line mapping sites, they can do a profile of the elevation.

It may or may not be accurate, but at least it gives an idea.

[[XAP]Bob]

And of course - height above what?

The start of the climb?

[Ayesha]

Here are hills in graph form, with Ditchling Beacon marked as a red diamond.

[honesty]

Garmin connect has a height graph running along the bottom of your mapped route. I'm sure other mapping software does this as well.

[MGate]

Come up to Yorkshire where you can ride the Tabular Hills....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabular_Hills

[andrew_s]

The OS have contour mapping as part of their Opendata. This should have all the spot heights from 1:50,000 maps on it (as grid ref & height).
The difficulty will be matching up the spot heights to hill names.

[simonineaston]

I have just thought of something... call me stupid - many have - but the answer to my problem isn't necessarily a table of heights, but rather, another and indeed well-known, way to display height in a readily digestible visual form - colour contouring! Doh!