the vertical elevation of an object above a surface (as sea level or land) of a planet or natural satellite
Questions tagged [altitude]
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How to find altitude by coordinates?
I want to find altitude based on given latitude and longitude value. Is there a math to calculating this? Can you help if there is any formula?
For example:
When I enter latitude and longitude values for any place in Brooklyn
40.67828, -73.94594
I…

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Is there a way to get elevation in leaflet
I need find evelation value in leaflet using lat and lng paramaters. I dont want use google elevation. Is there any way for this ?
I am trying build sometihng like that
I tried this but its not working :…

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Android GPS is not updating location at high altitude inside aircraft
I am building an application for Android devices for skydivers to log location data during a skydive.
I have set the app up to record the device GPS location every 5 seconds in a foreground service. It seems to be working fine until the user is…

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get elevation of coordinate from srtm dem file in kotlin or java
I want get elevation of point offline in my app
I searched a lot but could not find anything for this.How can I do this?
We have a dem file and we may get altitude of point with coordinate (latitude and longitude)

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What can be done if "altitude" reading is negative in sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg?
What to interpret and how to process the data in general when the values (from gps sensor) for "altitude" field in ROS sensor_msgs/NavSatFix.msg is negative ?

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Mapbox Javascript markers with elevation/altitude in Javascript
By default, Mapbox markers are set to ground altitude. Is there some way to elevate their position? It is to represent some drones position, elevated over the map, corresponding to their respective altitudes.
Thanks!

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error: invalid operands of types 'double' and 'double' to binary 'operator^'
I am attempting to write a piece of code to calculate altitude from pressure and temperature recorded on an arduino nano. This is my code:
#include
Adafruit_BMP280 bmp;
Adafruit_Sensor *bmp_temp =…

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How would I get an altitude map of an area from a satellite?
I have found code which returns a single lat long point, but it takes about 1s per point. I would like to get an altitude map of an area between 2 sets of lat/lon coords. Ideally not with the googleapi because that requires a key.
My code (which I…

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Mapping Degrees to (x,y) pixels on a 360 Image
I am looking to plot out points on a 2d spherical image from a GoPro Max given an Altitude° and an Azimuth°.
Here's what you can assume:
The center of the image is always facing south
the image is always level looking straight at the…

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API call to map geo coordinates to altitude
Does HERE has an API that is able to map goe contains (latitude and longitude pair) to the altitude?

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AirSim get altitude
I am using Microsoft AirSim with Unreal engine, and connecting with python API. I am using the LandscapeMountains project available through Unreal.
I am able to capture the altitude with client.getGpsData().gnss.geo_point.altitude
However the…

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Fluctuation of GPS Altitude stops when second app is running
I have developed an Android app for recording (paraglider) flights and the altitude recording from (GPS-) location data is usually fine.
But now I got a complaint that the recorded altitude is fluctuating heavily. (Android 10 on Pixel 3a)
The…

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How do I get the most Accurate Altitude for Android Devices
I am coding a Fitness tracking App right now. Therefore I want to use the Altitude. I know I can get the Altitude via GPS, but this seems far away from being accurate. I already tried my app on several devices and all of them had problems with their…

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Find temperature occurrence (height) between two temperatures at specific heights from ground
Hi I am trying to interpolate temperature height from ground.
Knowing the following information tempA, heightA, tempB, heightB, I need to find where targetedTemperature occurs.
public static double TemperatureHeight(
double heightA,…

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How do I perform geolocation to get data as accurate and precise as possible?
we are developing a multiplatform (android and ios) application in react-native, which mainly deals with geolocation data, thus it higly depends on accuracy and precision of the data. For instance, the application accumulates - reads and saves - the…

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