Why “elevation” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I was referring to radar for building a point-cloud or three dimensional digital elevation model/digital surface model of the terrain, buildings, vehicles, trees, not photo…
by walrus01 · Oct 1, 2026
I made a stylized low-poly 3D Earth engine using open maps and elevation data that runs in the browser (desktop only for now). It's written in Rust and runs on WebGPU (wasm with…
by blueblazin · Sep 30, 2026
Thanks, this is an online app and it uses protomaps[1] and mapterhorn[2] data for cities and elevation. So the app streams relevant elevation tiles based on your current locatio…
by blueblazin · Sep 30, 2026
I grew up in a rural place where we could see the texture of the milky way just stepping outside at night—it’s been fun taking friends who grew up in cities on wilderness backpa…
by macNchz · Sep 29, 2026
I would like to take this opportunity to pitch an old favourite of mine - Blast Doors (1996) by Freds Friends. Aka "The Nuclear Family Feud". Basically it's a 3D version of Arti…
by kombookcha · Sep 29, 2026
Show HN: Divot.css – a simple skeuomorphic button style
by nlazaris · Sep 28, 2026 · 3 points
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The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface. Read more on Wikipedia