The performance of the new EGM2008 global geopotential model, over Poland, has been evaluated. The tide-free release of the EGM2008 model was also used for the assessment of quality of three precise quasigeoid models developed in the last decade in Poland. The EGM2008 model was compared with GPS/levelling as well as regional gravimetric quasigeoid models. The results obtained confirm high quality of quasigeoid models in Poland. They are in agreement with the previous estimate of their accuracy. Regional quasigeoid model calculated using the EGM2008 model has been found fully comparable with the existing precise quasigeoid models. EGM2008-based quasigeoid model was used to detect outlying GPS/levelling heights in the data set used for the assessment of quality of gravimetric quasigeoid models in Poland.

Geoinformation Issues, 2009, Vol. 1, No 1, pages 7-17