On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Shaw Innes <s...@immortal.net.au> wrote:
> Just curious if it would be possible to use GeoServer and WFS queries (or
> some other method) to provide a functionality similar to the Google Maps
> elevation API whereby I could provide a query to the server with a number of
> points, a linestring or similar and have it return an array of elevation
> data points along that path?
>
> The google service is perfect, except that I would Ideally like to run in
> an "offline" environment and also provide my own higher-accuracy DEM data.
>
What you want is data processing. It's possible to do it, but you need the
WPS service.
The process to extract an elevation profile out of a path and a DEM is not
available yet, but it's definitely possible to code one
Cheers
Andrea
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