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Does anyone know if there is a way to determine the min/max elevation of the area within the map bounds view when using mapbox://mapbox.mapbox-terrain-v2?

cdubbs
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You can use the Surface API to find the elevation at a given location.

A possible approach would be to retrieve the elevation for a couple of points within the boundary and determine the min/max elevation approximately. The current limit of points per query is 300.

Take a look at the Surface Playground To get the elevation: Select the Mapbox Terrain from the examples, then layer: contour, field: ele

kmandov
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  • Great idea, this should be a good enough solution for me if I send a sampling of 300 points. – cdubbs Aug 25 '15 at 22:07