Including Elevation Data in a Network

Elevation data can be imported from the following sources

• directly from OSM
• from a shapefile mesh by using the NETCONVERT option --heightmap.shapefiles
• from a greyscale height-map using NETCONVERT option --heightmap.geotiff.
• from edg.xml files as part of the shape specification

Related Topics

Retrieving Elevation data via TraCI

Current 3D-Position can be retrieved for persons and vehicles.

Visualizing Elevation data

SUMO-GUI and NETEDIT allow coloring edges by:

• elevation at the start of the edge
• elevation at the start of each straight-line geometry segment for each edge
• inclination of the whole edge
• inclination of each straight-line geometry segment for each edge

Models that use Elevation Data

• Electric vehicle model
• PHEMLigh emission model
• carFollowModel="KraussPS"