Get elevation in meters and feet for any place on Earth. Enter an address or paste latitude and longitude.
Elevation, also called altitude, is the height of a point above mean sea level. The standard reference is EGM96 or WGS84, the same global geoid used by GPS. Elevation values come from digital elevation models (DEMs), produced by satellite radar, lidar, and photogrammetry. Resolution varies by region: open global DEMs are typically 30 metres per pixel, while commercial DEMs reach 1 metre or better in well-mapped regions.
If you enter an address, we forward-geocode it to a latitude and longitude using the MapAtlas Geocoding API, then query a public elevation service for the height of that point. If you paste coordinates directly, we skip the geocoding step. The result is returned in both meters and feet, rounded to the nearest unit. For production use cases that need batch lookups, sub-meter accuracy, or terrain profile sampling along a route, the MapAtlas API exposes the same data through a stable enterprise endpoint.
Hiking and outdoor apps showing trail elevation gain, drone flight planning tools that need terrain clearance, real estate platforms displaying floodplain risk, civil engineering pre-feasibility studies, weather and climate models, racing and cycling route planners, and any application where the third dimension matters. A two-dimensional map cannot tell you whether a route climbs 50 metres or 2,000 metres. Adding elevation data turns a flat map into a terrain-aware product.
The MapAtlas GeoEnrich API returns elevation, terrain profile, and slope data for any point or path. EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant.
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