Elevation - Get Data For Points

Reference

Service:: Maps

API Version:: 1.0

Get Elevation Data on One or More Points

Important

The Azure Maps Elevation services and Render V2 DEM tiles have been retired and will no longer be available and supported after 5 May 2023. All other Azure Maps APIs, Services and TilesetIDs are unaffected by this retirement. For more details, see Elevation Services Retirement.

Applies to: see pricing tiers.

The Get Data for Points API provides elevation data for one or more points. A point is defined in lat,long coordinate format.

Due to the URL character length limit of 2048, it's not possible to pass more than 100 coordinates as a pipeline delimited string in a URL GET request. If you intend to pass more than 100 coordinates as a pipeline delimited string, use the POST Data For Points.

The result will be in the same sequence of points listed in the request.

GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/elevation/point/json?api-version=1.0&points={points}

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
format	path	True	JsonFormat	Desired format of the response. Only `json` format is supported.
api-version	query	True	string	Version number of Azure Maps API.
points	query	True	array	The string representation of a list of points. A point is defined in lon/lat WGS84 coordinate reference system format. If multiple points are requested, each of the points in a list should be separated by the pipe ('\|') character. The maximum number of points that can be requested in a single request is 2,000. The resolution of the elevation data will be the highest for a single point and will decrease if multiple points are spread further apart.

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
x-ms-client-id		string	Specifies which account is intended for usage in conjunction with the Azure AD security model. It represents a unique ID for the Azure Maps account and can be retrieved from the Azure Maps management plane Account API. To use Azure AD security in Azure Maps see the following articles for guidance.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	ElevationResult	OK
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error occurred.

Security

AADToken

These are the Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flows. When paired with Azure role-based access control it can be used to control access to Azure Maps REST APIs. Azure role-based access controls are used to designate access to one or more Azure Maps resource account or sub-resources. Any user, group, or service principal can be granted access via a built-in role or a custom role composed of one or more permissions to Azure Maps REST APIs.

To implement scenarios, we recommend viewing authentication concepts. In summary, this security definition provides a solution for modeling application(s) via objects capable of access control on specific APIs and scopes.

Notes

This security definition requires the use of the x-ms-client-id header to indicate which Azure Maps resource the application is requesting access to. This can be acquired from the Maps management API.

The Authorization URL is specific to the Azure public cloud instance. Sovereign clouds have unique Authorization URLs and Azure Active directory configurations. * The Azure role-based access control is configured from the Azure management plane via Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST APIs. * Usage of the Azure Maps Web SDK allows for configuration based setup of an application for multiple use cases.

Currently, Azure Active Directory v1.0 or v2.0 supports Work, School, and Guests but does not support Personal accounts.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
https://atlas.microsoft.com/.default	https://atlas.microsoft.com/.default

subscription-key

This is a shared key that is provisioned when you Create an Azure Maps account in the Azure portal or using PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST API.

With this key, any application can access all REST API. In other words, this key can be used as a master key in the account that they are issued in.

For publicly exposed applications, our recommendation is to use the confidential client applications approach to access Azure Maps REST APIs so your key can be securely stored.

Type: apiKey
In: query

SAS Token

This is a shared access signature token is created from the List SAS operation on the Azure Maps resource through the Azure management plane via Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, Azure SDKs, or REST APIs.

With this token, any application is authorized to access with Azure role-based access controls and fine-grain control to the expiration, rate, and region(s) of use for the particular token. In other words, the SAS Token can be used to allow applications to control access in a more secured way than the shared key.

For publicly exposed applications, our recommendation is to configure a specific list of allowed origins on the Map account resource to limit rendering abuse and regularly renew the SAS Token.

Type: apiKey
In: header

Examples

Successfully retrieve elevation data for one or more points using get

Sample Request

HTTP

GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/elevation/point/json?api-version=1.0&points=-121.66853362143818, 46.84646479863713|-121.68853362143818, 46.856464798637127

Sample Response

Status code:: 200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "coordinate": {
        "latitude": 46.84646479863713,
        "longitude": -121.66853362143819
      },
      "elevationInMeter": 2314.453420172242
    },
    {
      "coordinate": {
        "latitude": 46.85646479863713,
        "longitude": -121.68853362143818
      },
      "elevationInMeter": 2506.143003879378
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
Elevation	The elevation data.
ElevationResult	The response from a successful Get Data for Bounding Box API.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
JsonFormat	Desired format of the response. Only `json` format is supported.
LatLongPair	A location represented as a latitude and longitude.

Elevation

The elevation data.

Name	Type	Description
coordinate	LatLongPair	A location represented as a latitude and longitude.
elevationInMeter	number	The elevation value in meters.

ElevationResult

The response from a successful Get Data for Bounding Box API.

Name	Type	Description
data	Elevation[]	The response for point/points elevation API. The result will be in same sequence of points listed in request.

ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

JsonFormat

Desired format of the response. Only json format is supported.

Name	Type	Description
json	string	The JavaScript Object Notation Data Interchange Format

LatLongPair

A location represented as a latitude and longitude.

Name	Type	Description
latitude	number	Latitude property
longitude	number	Longitude property