This is confusing, since the highest point on earth, Mt. Everest, has an altitude of about 5mi.
This is probably a copy-and-paste error; the example for Place defines the Fresno area with a radius of 15 miles.
An accurate altitude would be 94m or 0.06 miles or 308ft. Since feet is the idiomatic measurement of altitude in the USA, that's probably the right one to use.
The example for
altitude
in the vocabulary document is:This is confusing, since the highest point on earth, Mt. Everest, has an altitude of about 5mi.
This is probably a copy-and-paste error; the example for Place defines the Fresno area with a
radius
of 15 miles.An accurate altitude would be 94m or 0.06 miles or 308ft. Since feet is the idiomatic measurement of altitude in the USA, that's probably the right one to use.