[OSM-dev] gpx elevation data for given bounding box?

[Shaun McDonald]

On 13 Sep 2008, at 18:36, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:

> Hi,
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/trackpoints?bbox=24.910183149172653,60.15440288678513,24.95553022602672,60.17696276708048&page=0
>
> gives me GPX data for a given bounding box but does not seem to
> include elevation data for any of the points. However, if I download
> the original GPX tracks from e.g.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/trace/185458/data
>
> I can see elevation data. Is there anything I could do to get such
> elevation data for only specific bounding box? I am not sure how much
> www.openstreetmap.org likes if I download all GPX files (44 gigabytes
> if my extrapolation is correct) separately and then do bounding box
> filtering locally.
>

The elevation data from GPS traces is not stored on import as it is  
too unreliable.

Shaun