I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of Elevation, a tool for easy access to global terrain digital elevation models, SRTM 30m DEM and SRTM 90m DEM: http://elevation.bopen.eu/en/stable/quickstart.html Elevation is currently considered feature complete, its command-line and python APIs are frozen and it sees constant production use. If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description on the development page: https://github.com/bopen/elevation Contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated, every little help counts, so do not hesitate! The project is free and open source software distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. and the development has been sponsored by my employer B-Open Solutions http://bopen.eu. Alessandro - @alexamici https://twitter.com/alexamici CTO at B-Open Solutions - http://bopen.eu