Find the Elevation on a Map

Find Elevation on Map is a compact world map for looking up the height of one place or a string of marked points. Search by place, choose locations, switch between meters and feet, and collect coordinates in CSV form. It sits in the handy middle ground between idle geographic curiosity and opening a full GIS toolbox.

What is Find the Elevation on a Map?

The page puts a location search and a map at the center of the job. Each chosen point is meant to become a marker with an elevation, while optional outputs add coordinates, feet, meters, and cumulative distance. Multiple points can be linked with a line, revisited, removed individually, or cleared as a group; the CSV area turns the marker set into a small table. Daft Logic's history dates the tool to 2008 and records a move to Leaflet plus a later Terrain Tiles data source, giving this tiny utility a surprisingly long paper trail. The interface is best approached as a quick terrain notepad: enough structure for comparing a hill, antenna site, walking route, or faraway landmark without pretending to be professional surveying software.

What you can do there

• Search for a place
• Choose map points to request elevations
• Compare multiple marked points
• Copy coordinates and elevations from CSV output

Why we picked it

It turns a dry geographic lookup into a satisfying sequence of pins and small discoveries. The coordinate, unit, distance, line, and CSV options add genuine utility without burying the central question: how high is that spot? Its long, dated version history also makes the tool feel maintained rather than abandoned in an old map-API attic.

How to get the most from it

Search for a familiar place, then add one point as a sanity check before building a longer set. Turn on meters, feet, coordinates, or distance as needed; use the line option for a rough sequence and copy the CSV output when the numbers need to travel elsewhere. Remove a stray marker individually or clear the map to start fresh.

Good to know

Recent comments on the page report failed requests, low marker limits, mobile trouble, and questionable readings. The published instructions also do not identify a vertical datum. Treat the numbers as rough reference material, not survey data, and confirm anything consequential with an authoritative elevation source. Touch use is described by the site, but current map behavior, accessibility, advertising, privacy, and account requirements were not exercised.

Who made it, and when?

The earliest supported launch date we found is September 28, 2008. A documented update was recorded March 30, 2025.