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4th February 2021

TIL Downloading MapZen elevation tiles — [Via Tony Hirst](https://twitter.com/psychemedia/status/1357280624319553537) I found out about [MapZen's elevation tiles](https://www.mapzen.com/blog/terrain-tile-service/), which encode elevation data in PNG and other formats.

Posted 4th February 2021 at 6:48 pm

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