Get height of a building from a maps API

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Pedro Laguna picture Pedro Laguna · Jun 21, 2012 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

It's any public maps API (google, microsoft, openstreet...) that returns the height of the roof for certain points?

Imagine: you request some address and the API returns the coordinates, some information and the height of the building, if available.

Answer

scai picture scai · Jun 25, 2012

OpenStreetMap has a height tag and various other building related tags like building:levels from which you could estimate the height. However note that currently most buildings lack those tags as they aren't widely in use so far. Still you could give it a try and request all buildings around a specific point or area using Overpass API / overpass turbo and then look for those tags.

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