Get altitude data from Google Earth

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omgMaya picture omgMaya · Jan 25, 2013 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I am trying to get the altitude of some points given their latitude and longitude. Is there any api to do this in Google Earth? I need to deal with a large amount of data.

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Matthew picture Matthew · Jan 25, 2013

Google provides an elevation API for up to 25k requests per day: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/

There are also the other options discussed here: How to look up elevation data by lat/lng

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