# OpenRouteService Elevation API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/elevation/  
**Provider:** OpenRouteService — https://apis.io/providers/openrouteservice/  
**Base URL:** https://api.openrouteservice.org  
**Documentation:** https://openrouteservice.org

OpenRouteService Elevation API is one of 16 APIs that [OpenRouteService](https://apis.io/providers/openrouteservice/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Elevation, Terrain, Altitude, and SRTM. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Returns elevation data for point or line geometries using SRTM data, supporting up to 2,000 vertices for enriching routes and locations with altitude information.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://giscience.github.io/openrouteservice/api-reference/endpoints/elevation/

## Other OpenRouteService APIs (12)

- [OpenRouteService Isochrones API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/isochrones/)
- [OpenRouteService Matrix API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/matrix/)
- [OpenRouteService Geocoding API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/geocoding/)
- [OpenRouteService Optimization API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/optimization/)
- [OpenRouteService POI API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/pois/)
- [OpenRouteService Snapping API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/snapping/)
- [OpenRouteService Directions API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-directions-api/)
- [OpenRouteService Elevation API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-elevation-api/)
- [OpenRouteService Geocoding API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-geocoding-api/)
- [OpenRouteService Health API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-health-api/)
- [OpenRouteService Isochrones API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-isochrones-api/)
- [OpenRouteService Matrix API](https://apis.io/apis/openrouteservice/openrouteservice-matrix-api/)

## Tags

Elevation, Terrain, Altitude, SRTM

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