altitude

Fast and lightweight querying of SRTM3 elevation data within Python.

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Getting started

Working with altitude is simple.

from altitude import ElevationService
e = ElevationService('.cache/')
elevation = e.get_elevation(50.8, 7.5)

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Install

pip install altitude

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Referencing

@misc{altitude,
  author = {{Tom de Ruijter}},
  title = {{altitude}: Querying SRTM data on the fly.},
  howpublished = {\url{http://github.com/tomderuijter/altitude}},
  year = {since 2016}
}

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Contributing

This package is developed to be fast and lightweight. Contributions through pull-requests are very welcome, but should honour those two core principles.

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Contributors

• Tom de Ruijter

The library is inspired by srtm.py.

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License

This code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.