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

[Tom Hughes]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2008, at 18:36, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Strictly speaking I think it is actually imported, just not exported 
again in the download.

Tom

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