Elevation API

Simple elevation API reading data from SRTM HGT files.

Supported data

• 30m (1 arc second)
• 90m (3 arc seconds)

Usage

Build Docker image.

docker build -t elevation:latest .

Start container with mounted directory containing SRTM HGT files.

docker run --name elevation -v $(pwd)/data:/opt/elevation/data -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 -d elevation:latest

Request

Due to limitations in query length, POST method should be used for large requests.

GET

Coordinate order is latitude,longitude.

curl -v 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/json?locations=48.1234,21.1234|49.12,22.12|1,1'

POST

curl -v -X POST \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
    -d '{"locations":[{"latitude":48.1234,"longitude":21.1234},{"latitude":49.12,"longitude":22.12},{"latitude":1,"longitude":1}]}' \
    'http://127.0.0.1:8080/json'

Response

• elevation is in meters
• resolution is in arc seconds (1 - 30m, 3 - 90m)
• for location with unknown elevation (missing data file, location out of SRTM range, void) parameter "error" with value 404 will appear in result object.

{
    "result": [
        {
            "latitude": 48.1234,
            "longitude": 21.1234,
            "elevation": 103,
            "resolution": 1
        },
        {
            "latitude": 49.12,
            "longitude": 22.12,
            "elevation": 420,
            "resolution": 1
        },
        {
            "latitude": 1,
            "longitude": 1,
            "error": 404
        }
    ]
}

License

Licensed under MIT license.