ELEVATION API

Features:

• On premise, easily deployable with Docker
• TIF files as custom elevation sources files (e.g. Copernicus EU DEM)
• Endpoints for GeoJSON geometry to retrieve elevations for each vertex
• Geometry interpolation with elevation profile
• Automatic coordinate system transformations using provided definitions ( data/spatial_reference.json) for many SRID codes and geotiff metadata parsing

Demo CLIENT

https://elevation-app.lipusblaz.com

github: https://github.com/lipusmah/elevation-api-client

Demo API (limited)

The swagger/open-api definitions can be found at: https://elevation.lipusblaz.com/docs or https://elevation.lipusblaz.com/redoc

Try it directly: https://elevation.lipusblaz.com/elevation/14.5128/46.1384?srid=4326

to-do:

• Tests
• CI testing pipeline
• Sub-pixel elevation interpolation (different functions - linear, cubic etc)

Quick start (docker)

    docker-compose up

then navigate to:

http://localhost:8080/docs or http://localhost:8080/docs

Setup

There is 1 environmental variable:

ELEVATIONAPI_CONFIG_PATH="/data/config.json"

If working on other systems than ubuntu, update his variable accordingly

Local setup

Prerequsites:

• GDAL installed and added to path
• Poetry

Create virtual environment and install packages:

poetry install

To get the path to the virtual environemt executable for debugging purposes:

poetry env info

For DEBUGGING run debug.py file with python interpreter set to poetry env info executable path.

Running for production (pyproject.toml script):

poetry run start

Testing

To run the tests inside /tests directory run:

poetry run pytest

Docker

Using docker compose:

    docker-compose up

/data/* directory si setup as mount in the docker image, providing a way to use and manage elevation geo tiff data.

Build and run docker image:

    docker image build .

    docker run hash-of-the-built-image

Configuration

./data/config.json

{
    "datasources": [
        {
            "id": "test1",
            "name": "test1",
            "path": "./lj_eu_dem_v11.tif",
            //"srid": integer (read from geotiff file if not profided, otherwise it will be read from spatial_reference.json),
            //"extent": number[] (array of length 4 representing xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax in the coordinate system srid or )
        }
    ],
    "spatial_ref_sys_path": "./spatial_reference.json"
}

Provide all DEM tif files in "datasources" property of config.json.

The provided spatial_reference.json file defines many coordinate system for any region and is used sometimes if the *.TIF file doesnt contain encoded reference system definition.