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USEPA / elevatr

An R package for accessing elevation data
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Is there no function for extracting point data from outside the US? #74

Closed kamaulindhardt closed 1 year ago

kamaulindhardt commented 2 years ago

Is there no function for extracting elevation point data from outside the US?

Just like you've made with get_elev_point() to get point elevations from the US. Or is it only raster data that is available at global scale?

jhollist commented 2 years ago

@kamaulindhardt You can specify "aws" as the src in get_elev_point and it will return point elevations from the AWS terrain tiles. That should work globally. It uses get_elev_raster to grab the raster and then extracts the elevations from the raster. You will need to select an appropriation zoom (i.e., z) for your application.

Also, I don't know of any global point services like the USGS one. There may be one, I just haven't looked in a while. If you know of one, submit an issue and I will add it to my list!

Let me know if this works.

jhollist commented 2 years ago

@kamaulindhardt were you able to get this to work? Just trying to clean up some issues.

jhollist commented 1 year ago

Seems resolved. If you still have questions about points outside the US. Feel free to reopen.

kamaulindhardt commented 1 year ago

Thank you!

Its a long time ago that this issue arose. I think I managed. Thanks for your efforts in replying. Best regards :)