{"id":19794,"date":"2025-05-27T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:27:42","slug":"kentucky-elevation-profile-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2025\/05\/27\/kentucky-elevation-profile-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky elevation profile maker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kentucky has multiple statewide elevation layers derived from lidar point clouds. KyFromAbove Phase 1 lidar has both a 5-foot resolution ground (bare-earth) and above-ground (trees and buildings) elevation models hosted as open raster data.<\/p>\n

We can query these layers to find ground and surface feature elevations at specific locations, such as along a line. These elevation profiles are useful in urban planning, environmental studies, and infrastructure development.<\/p>\n

Create elevation profiles and save the data as JSON.<\/p>\n

boydx.github.io\/ky-profiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below are a screenshots from the web page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Twin Knobs show ground and trees<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kentucky Capitol is 209 feet tall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\nCreating multiple profiles at Laurel Lake<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Downloading
\nDownloading them as JSON for use in other applications<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How high is that tree or building? Kentucky offers statewide elevation layers from lidar point clouds that can be queried for ground and above-ground elevations. Draw and save elevation profiles on boydx.github.io\/ky-profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,80,23],"tags":[63,69,70],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-maps","category-kyfromabove","category-maps","tag-elevation-profile","tag-kyfromabove","tag-uky-geography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19822,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions\/19822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}