I am pleased to announce the first public beta release 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 Development effort is directed to fixing bugs and writing better documentation before the 1.0 release. Testing and contributions are highly welcomed and appreciated. Every little help counts, so do not hesitate! https://github.com/bopen/elevation User questions are best directed to https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=python+elevation. 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. Thanks, Alessandro -- Alessandro Amici CTO at B-Open Solutions - http://www.bopen.eu/ Viale Palmiro Togliatti, 1639 - 00155 Roma - tel: +39 06 8370 8269