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New Zealand Elevation

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Toitū Te Whenua makes New Zealand's most up-to-date publicly owned elevation data freely available to use under an open licence. You can access this through the LINZ Data Service, LINZ Basemaps or the Registry of Open Data on AWS.

Quickstart

Browse the archive with STAC Index or access the catalog directly https://nz-elevation.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/catalog.json

Background

This repository contains STAC Collection metadata for each elevation dataset, as well as some guidance documentation:

  • Naming covers the s3://nz-elevation bucket naming structure
  • Usage shows how TIFFs can be interacted with from S3 using GDAL, QGIS, etc
  • Elevation Compression provides commentary and analysis on the compression options we explored.

AWS Access

Toitū Te Whenua owns and maintains a public bucket which is sponsored and shared via the Registry of Open Data on AWS s3://nz-elevation in ap-southeast-2.

Using the AWS CLI anyone can access all of the imagery specified in this repository.

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nz-elevation/

Related

For access to LINZ's aerial and satellite imagery see linz/imagery

License

Source code is licensed under MIT.

All metadata and docs are licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

For more information on elevation attribution.