Elevation and topography data

Post up the highest elevation in your city, along with map links if available.

Vancouver, BC
click on 'start vanmap'
check 'countour lines' and you'll get 1m lines
http://vancouver.ca/vanmap/

Looks like the highest point (Queen Elizabeth Park) is actually only 125m high.

http://americasroof.com/cities.shtml

Pittsburgh, despite having some steep hills, has only 660ft of net elevation change.

Denver may be at 5470ft but the low point is 5130ft.

Miami 30ft

New Orleans 25ft

Quote "
New Brunswick, with an area of 73,440 sq km (28,355 sq mi), is the eighth largest province in Canada; approximately 2% of the land area is owned by the federal government. The province is roughly elliptical in shape, and its extreme dimensions are about 370 km (about 230 mi) from north to south and about 305 km (about 190 mi) from east to west. Elevations range from sea level to 820 m (2690 ft) atop Mt. Carleton. The province has a total shoreline of 2269 km (1410 mi)."

820m highest point is Mt Carleton.. hmm... Nothing even close to that in Moncton.. still looking.

A quick search of the Moncton web site didn't turn up any topo maps, but they do have a cool survey system:

"supports real-time 3D positioning to a centimetre-level accuracy"

http://www.moncton.org/search/english/cityhall/citydepartments/eng/gis/gps.htm

Here's an elevation map of the Pittsburgh area.

Contour lines are at 20m intervals. The map is 15 miles tall.

Looks like most of the hills are about 50-100m high? Looks like a roller coaster ride!

Ypedal,

Here's an elevation map of the Moncton area.

Contour lines are at 20m intervals. The map is 15 miles tall.

Hey wren.. what site was that from.. ? i removed the sub link but the IP has a blank page with " home " and no control to zoom in or out... That's cool... more info please..

Lowell said:

Looks like most of the hills are about 50-100m high?

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That seems about right.

Looks like a roller coaster ride!

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Heheh. Yep!

Ypedal said:

Hey wren.. what site was that from.. ? i removed the sub link but the IP has a blank page with " home " and no control to zoom in or out... That's cool... more info please..

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The maps were generated using Radio Mobile. Most people use the software to analyze radio and Wi-Fi setups. As a side benefit, the program can produce nice topographic maps from SRTM and other topographic data sets.

However, it's not designed as a mapping program. Yes, you can zoom and scroll the map, but only indirectly by specifying different center locations and map dimensions. Applying these changes may take several minutes while data is downloaded. More time is needed if street or aerial overlay maps are to be merged with topographic data. Also, to enable some of the map overlay features it's necessary to modify several text files in order to confirm that you will not use those specific features for commercial purposes.

Really, it's a great piece of software. I recommend trying it out. Just don't expect it to behave anything like Streets & Trips or Google Maps.

To help establish bearings, here are the maps with some major streets indicated on them.

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  Moncton
  Moncton + Low Street Detail
  Moncton + Medium Street Detail (Large Image)
  
  Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh + Low Street Detail
  Pittsburgh + Medium Street Detail (Large Image)
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I didn't look at those street map overlays until tonight... very useful mapping. Any chance you could do one centered on Vancouver International Airport?