Wrong elevation at high zoom levels

[sameersb]

For many places, after certain zoom level, elevation value is wrong.
Examples while using terrarium tiles,

Example 1:
Latitude: -78.996578, Longitude: 19.218528
Elevation Value 3208m (correct) for zoom level 4 and below.
Elevation Value 170m (wrong) for zoom level 5 and above.

Example 2:
Latitude: -24.728372, Longitude: 43.810335
Elevation Value -1782m (correct) for zoom level 10 and below.
Elevation Value 0m (wrong) for zoom level 11 and above.

Thanks & regards

[sameersb]

One more place, weird data
Latitude: 44.483966, Longitude: -86.740183
Elevation Value 177m (correct) for zoom level except 5.
Elevation Value -80m (wrong) for zoom level 5.

[nvkelso]

Can you give an example for each with a tile coordinate filename with zoom, x, y please? Above and below can be confusing when talking about zoom levels (and map scale in general).

[sameersb]

Latitude: 44.483966, Longitude: -86.740183
correct: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/6/16/23.png
wrong: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/5/8/11.png

Latitude: -78.996578, Longitude: 19.218528
correct: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/4/8/13.png
wrong: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/5/17/27.png

Latitude: -24.728372, Longitude: 43.810335
correct: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/10/636/584.png
wrong: https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/11/1273/1169.png

[nvkelso]

Some comments:

• Bathymetry (water depth information) is not available for all sources, and isn't gaurenteed to be consistenly between zooms for inland water like the Great Lakes.
• Your second example isn't obvious to me. What's the problem you're seeing?
• Third example looks like we're transitioning from a medium resolution source to a higher resolution (downsampled) source but perhaps there are coastline merge/join artifacts – which a few other open issues discuss and propose unimplemented fixes for.

Can you clarify what you mean by "wrong"? The elevation at a given pixel will always have some rounding errors thru the zoom ranges. Are you talking about it going from having a non-zero value to zero? Or infinite heights? Or within ±100m change in value from zoom to zoom?

[sameersb]

Thanks nvkelso for your comments.
The second example is from Antarctica.
"wrong" means the pixel value itself is far different from zoom to zoom (difference is more than 100m)
I can understand rounding errors but I found the errors are more than 100m as follow,

Latitude: 44.483966, Longitude: -86.740183
correct: 177m /6/16/23.png
wrong: -80m /5/8/11.png (Except zoom level 5, at all other zoom levels pixel value is correct)

Latitude: -78.996578, Longitude: 19.218528 (Antarctica)
correct: 3208m /4/8/13.png
wrong: 170m /5/17/27.png (Far difference in pixel value)

Latitude: -24.728372, Longitude: 43.810335
correct: -1782m /10/636/584.png
wrong: 0m /11/1273/1169.png (I understand that this is due to coastline merge)

[sameersb]

The tile /12/1135/1743.png in Florida, United State has totally wrong values.
Also on zooming in that tile area, the many child tiles also has wrong values.
Request to please check the issue.

[sameersb]

The tile https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/11/483/850.png near Galveston, Texas, United State also has wrong values.
Many nearby tiles also has wrong values.

[sameersb]

The tile https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/11/483/850.png near Galveston, Texas, United State also has wrong values.
Many nearby tiles also has wrong values.

Simply compare following two images with successive X position, they are completely different
https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/11/482/850.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/elevation-tiles-prod/terrarium/11/483/850.png

There are many such tiles in the United States

[nvkelso]

Related marblecutter issue: mojodna/marblecutter#73

[sameersb]

Another example, For location with Latitude: 25.511027 Longitude: -97.829837 elevation is 13 at zoom level 10 and at zoom level 11, elevation is 7

[nvkelso]

We've narrowed this down to an issue with how the GeoTIFF overviews are created and passed to GDAL as VRTs. We're testing the fix, and are in discussions with AWS to do a new global build to make the fix available on S3.

[sameersb]

That's really an excellent news... waiting eagerly....

[sameersb]

We've narrowed this down to an issue with how the GeoTIFF overviews are created and passed to GDAL as VRTs. We're testing the fix, and are in discussions with AWS to do a new global build to make the fix available on S3.

Just wanted to know when is it expected to available on AWS? Thanks

[sameersb]

We've narrowed this down to an issue with how the GeoTIFF overviews are created and passed to GDAL as VRTs. We're testing the fix, and are in discussions with AWS to do a new global build to make the fix available on S3.

@nvkelso kind request to make the fix available on S3