Austrian Elevation Service

The "Austrian Elevation Service" is a prototype of a free and open elevation service basing on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with 10 Meter resolution. The service is basing on many textfiles with elevation data saved in EPSG: 3857. The big advantage of this very simple approach is that every programming language can read textfiles. A database or a WMTS/WMS is not required.
In the source code of this website you find an example how to get elevation data with Javascript.
The target groups of this service are:

students
sole trader business
geologists, biologists, historians, office, ...
associations
small communes
specialized departments of big organisations
developer, who need gis-functions for their it-project

It is very easy for developer to use this elevation service with Open Street Map:

Click into the map to get elevation data in Austria.

Data source of elevation data for this prototype: geoland.at.

Copyright (c) 2017, Manfred Egger. You find licence information of this elevation service HERE