Find Ocean Depth at a Particular Point in the World (using Google Earth)

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Is it possible to find out the depth of the ocean at a particular point in the world?

I’ve been trying to do this with Google Earth, but have not been able to determine this.
The place I would like this for is located at:

(lat) 33°52'13.67”S, (lngt) 151°15'43.91”E

If anyone could help, it would be much appreciated.

Or, if there are any other applications/data-sets to determine this, that would also be good.

Best Answer

Google Maps provides an elevation API endpoint. It will return a negative value for coordinates corresponding to points on the ocean

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Google-maps – Finding businesses within an ‘n’ mile radius of a point with Google Maps or Earth

You can use the Google Places API to get at this data. It will allow you to specify a Lat/Long coordination and return places based on a radius distance. There is also documentation for Javascript based application.

Here's some info from the first article on using Place Search:

The Google Places API allows you to query for place information on a variety of categories, such as: establishments, prominent points of interest, geographic locations, and more. You can search for places either by proximity or a text string. A Place Search returns a list of Places along with summary information about each Place; additional information is available via a Place Details query.

You will need to set up the API project in https://code.google.com/apis/console/ to get the required project key parameter.

Example request:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=-33.8670522,151.1957362&radius=500&types=food&name=harbour&sensor=false&key=<PROJECT KEY GOES HERE>

Edit the same map on Google Earth and MyMaps

Should be possible - partially. Your maps are a part of Drive so first you need to download desktop Drive client - https://www.google.com/drive/download/ - and enable synchronization. Then you need to setup folder from Google Earth containing maps, to be included or transferred into your Drive synchronization folder. And when done just open your KMZ/KML map in Google Earth, play with it and save it, which will get synchronized with your Drive and your map in MyMaps shall be auto-updated and ready to be edited from MyMaps. then just play with your map on MyMaps and when done it will be auto-updated and auto synchronized with your Drive folder on your PC so its ready to be opened and played again in Google Earth, and so on.