pyterrain

A python package to fetch terrain.

Installation

You can install by pip $ pip install pyterrain

Usage

Register API Key

Pyterrain doesn't offer terrain data by itself, it fetches data from another website. Before downloading data, you should sign up an API key from nextzen.org. The key's pattern is like Dto0r88DQuaQizoxcQSxxx

Fetch DEM by bound box

When API key is reday, you can download DEM data like this:

bbox = 108.444319, 20.161757, 111.318897, 18.05883  # Hainan province of China

terrain = Terrain("Dto0r88DQuaQizoxcQSxxx")  # Pass API key
xs, ys, elevation = terrain.fetch(bbox=bbox, quiet=False, coord="lonlat", zoom=10)

If download is not completed because of connection, retry it.