Would like to see this, I'm looking to use this for astronomical ephemerides from a location, elevation is one of the variables.

Thanks,
-esy

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Hey Esy,
Thanks for the comment, I am always willing to add new features to this geocoder, also when people comment it motivates me to add them faster.
The elevation Tool should be working now, please test it out to it's full capacity, there will be a 2500 query limit per day based on Google's API, if you needed to get LOTS of elevation point you could be looking into some type of PostGIS + Elevation calculations, but that can get complicated.

Check out the Wiki page for Elevation Tool, I'll paste it here below:

Elevation Tool

Elevation tool will return the Mean elevation above Sea Level in meters based
on Lat & Lng inputs or an address using Google's elevation API.

>>> latlng = (45.4215296, -75.6971931)
>>> g = geocoder.elevation(latlng)
#OR
>>> g = geocoder.elevation("Ottawa, ON")
>>> g.elevation
'71.8073501587'
...

JSON output

By simply calling g.json you can retrieve a JSON object.

{
'elevation': 71.8073501586914,
 'lat': 45.4215296,
 'lng': -75.6971931,
 'location': 'Ottawa, ON',
 'ok': True,
 'provider': 'Elevation Google',
 'quality': None,
 'resolution': 1.192993998527527,
 'status': u'OK',
 'url': u'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/elevation/json?locations=45.4215296%2C-75.6971931'
}

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Awesome.

I think you mean to say "Mean elevation above Sea Level" in the above.

FWIW I’m using it in this little WSGI ditty that has turned out to be pretty useful to our local observatory and members:

http://ec2-54-82-43-159.compute-1.amazonaws.com:5555

-esy

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Thanks for the correction, You are right on that one.

Yes I tried it out your little WSGI by cloning your git repo, it seems to work really well. Good job on it!

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Now I need to check in this! :-)

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I've done a few tests with the elevation tool and it seems to work without any issues, but let me know if it breaks.
Cheers,

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Thanks again! New code to support it is checked in.

-esy

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