Receiving 404 errors when requesting elevation data

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Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:54

jackcooper

Receiving 404 errors when requesting elevation data

E.g. http://open.mapquestapi.com/elevation/v1/profile?key=MY_KEY&unit=f&latLn...

It seems to be sporadic. Occasionally the GET request will succeed, but not reliably.

Mon, 02/12/2018 - 10:35

bendo

We are having this exact same

We are having this exact same issue now too.

We previously made a few changes to account for the fact that the User Agent of the request couldn't be blank any longer using urllib but now we are getting 404s on about 50% of the calls. It isn't working in the browser either. The first one works but then the second and subsequent ones don't. It is almost like it is throttled but isn't telling us about it.

Our calls are similar to those of jackcooper, a single point.

http://open.mapquestapi.com/elevation/v1/profile?key=KEY&shapeFormat=raw...

Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:33

MQBrianCoakley

Thanks for the heads up. We

Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into this.

Mon, 02/12/2018 - 12:23

(Reply to #3)

MQBrianCoakley

All should be well now. There

All should be well now. There was a configuration file issue that has been resolved. The build script has been updated to pull the correct config file so this doesn't happen again in the future. Thanks for your patience.

Mon, 02/12/2018 - 13:09

bendo

So far so good... Thanks for

So far so good... Thanks for addressing the issue quickly.

Sun, 08/12/2018 - 16:46

alankinnaman

This is still occurring for

This is still occurring for me. I'm using XML output format, but I'm not sure if that matters for this issue. The problem seems to occur for both JSON and XML.

Mon, 08/13/2018 - 09:23

(Reply to #6)

MQBrianCoakley

Works great for me.

Have you not seen any results since February?

Can you post a sample request that is failing?

Tue, 08/14/2018 - 13:53

alankinnaman

Here's an example request:

https://open.mapquestapi.com/elevation/v1/profile?key=KEY&latLngCollecti...

It fails about 50% of the time.

Wed, 08/15/2018 - 06:06

(Reply to #8)

MQBrianCoakley

Got it. It's an issue in one

Got it. It's an issue in one of the data centers. It should be resolved later today. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Fri, 08/17/2018 - 09:32

alankinnaman

Thanks. This is still

Thanks. This is still failing about half the time. Do you know if the data center change was made?

Thu, 12/05/2019 - 14:10

johnwhutchins

Using my own API key with sample from site, getting 400

this fails everytime, and it's an example from the website: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/open/elevation-api/elevation-profile/get/

http://open.mapquestapi.com/elevation/v1/profile?key=KEY&shapeFormat=raw...

Tue, 12/10/2019 - 09:11

(Reply to #11)

MQBrianCoakley

Are you still seeing this

Are you still seeing this issue? It worked great for me.