Elevation API

While doing some Q&A for OSM, I needed to query the elevation of a huge number of points.

There are some existing free APIs out there, but they were either too slow, or using rather “OLD” datasets (ASTER for example).

So as the European Space Agency created a good DEM (Copernicus) which is open data, I decided to serve it as an API to everyone, for free :-)

You can access the service here: elevation-api.eu.

Technical considerations

If you’re interested of doing the same, the dataset is available here. Be aware that the whole data is ~100GB. It actually lives on my synology and it is mounted by the pod using NFS. It’s not the fastest, but it works quite well!

PS: If have ideas for a better design, don’t hesitate to contact me!.