I like the new service. What is the source of the elevation data? It doesn't exactly match the USGS elevation web service for 10m DEM, 30m DEM, or SRTM 30m. At the few US spots I sampled, it seems closest to the 10m DEM data. (I had been told GoogleEarth used SRTM for its elevation data.)
a UNITS option might be nice to select "feet" vs meters thanks tom d On Mar 28, 12:24 pm, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 28, 5:37 pm, "Thor (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > PS. We do limit the number of requests to 2,500 per day on top of the > > 25,000 point limit. This is consistent with the geocoding limit, and > > is intended to encourage applications to request multiple samples per > > request rather than 1 per point where possible. However I see that was > > not documented. I'll get that fixed. > > Thor, > > Aha! That explains why I got blocked "so soon". :) > When you fix the docs, note the sentence that says: > > "Use of the Google Elevation Web Service is subject to a query limit > of 25,000 elevation location requests per day. Note that on any given > query, you may request elevation data for multiple locations, which > count as separate queries." > > Two things in that sentence: > First, it says "25,000 requests per day", which is incorrect. > Second, It says "requests for multiple locations count as separate > queries", which gave me the impression that if I request elevation > along a route of 10 points it counts as 10 requests. > > Thanks! > > Marcelo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
