Austrian Elevation Service / GPS-Info

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.

Test this service and get the elevation of Seegrube/Innsbruck or write another coordinate into the fields:

Try this prototype with this free Q-GIS 2 Plugin:

In the year 2019 this prototype will be standardized and optimized. Please look at the German website of the project "GPS-Info":  http://gpsinfo.org/ or visit the German Blog of this project: https://www.netidee.at/gps-info

If you need more information in English, please contact: manfred@egger-gis.at