Altitude. Above sea level or WGS 84

[MaximMikhisor]

Hello,

There is this fraise for location in section "Using Geolocation": "If the altitude is available, the value is in meters above sea level."

But in section "Platform Differences" for Android you wrote this: "On Android, altitude, if available, is returned in meters above the WGS 84 reference ellipsoid" and for iOS you wrote this: "Positive values indicate altitudes above sea level"

Can you please clarify which statement is right? In what system does Geolocation return altitude value?

Thank you, Maxim

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