# Elevation data from Cesium Terrain Providers is wrong?

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/elevation-data-from-cesium-terrain-providers-is-wrong/1654>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [November 7, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/elevation-data-from-cesium-terrain-providers-is-wrong/1654 "2014-11-07T16:17:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/elevation-data-from-cesium-terrain-providers-is-wrong/1654/4 "2014-11-10T09:03:26Z")

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Hi Alex,

I tried to set a 47m offset and it surely seems correct, and also I found this issue which explained why VR-TheWorld Server is different with the Cesium server.

[https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/issues/526](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/issues/526)

I will try to calibrate my building models.

Many thanks again!

Anran

在 2014年11月7日星期五UTC+1下午9时39分29秒，Alexander Wood写道：

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