Looking for more detail about Mapzen DEM

Data Sources
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I’m looking to use the highest-resolution DEM I can find, and currently I am using the 3DEP data directly from their website. I thought of trying using SentinelHub data (in a custom configuration) because the Mapzen data uses 3DEP as one of its sources so if anything, should be either the same or higher resolution in each location. But when I actually pull the data it is lower resolution than what I get from 3DEP. Is there something to do with zoom levels happening here? If so, how does this work and how can I get the highest possible resolution?

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Hi Nastassia,
make sure to use us-west-2 end-point. There, we use the full resolution available.
If this is still not meeting your needs, there is not much more to be done, as Mapzen is discontinued…

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Can you help me understand how to set that in the configuration utility?

Also, do you mean discontinued in general, or in SentinelHub?

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There is no difference in Configuration utility.
However, when using the API (I guess you are using WMS/WMTS?), do use
https://services-uswest2.sentinel-hub.com/ogc/wms/<INSTANCE_ID>
instead of
https://services.sentinel-hub.com/ogc/wms/<INSTANCE_ID>

See:

Mapzen company was wound down in 2019:

Some parts are still maintained by a Linux community, but for DEM I am not sure this is the case.

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Thank you so much for the information! That really cleared up the situation.

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