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HOW TO EXTRACT ELEVATION/HEIGHT DATA FROM GOOGLE EARTH (after a tedious effort googling. I found this. Alahamdulillah) 1. Go to : http://www.zonums.com/gmaps/terrain.php?

action=sample Dont worry, its FREE. a. Terrain: - you can choose desired points in your selected area either RANDOMLY or using UNIFORM GRID. The maximum points for both methods are 5000 points = 5000 elevation data!! Cool ha... So, if you want detail elevation data, choose smaller area then select bigger sampling points.

b. Extent: Insert the maximum and minimum latitude and longitude your area. To inform, the coordinate system for this tool is WGS 84. Hence you can easily find the coordinates from google earth. Max Lat and long Max Lat and long

Min Lat and long Min Lat and 2. Click GET ELEVATION and wait until the tools finish plotting the elevation long points.

3. After the plotting process completed, you will be able to view a window containing X,Y and Z value. Copy and paste these in Notepad and you can import to ArcGIS . Good luck!! . Im so damn happy!! Haha...

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