Possible wrong document about Landscape's "Heightmap Z Scale"

I also have this query, my heightmap always be flat following the z-scale guide, so i also checked the used GetHeightData actually has 0-255(or -127 to 128) since it used (X - 32768)/127 * z-scale.

who can give some advise about how to generate z-scale to actually reflect the real world heightmap?