# How to get height or altitude of buildings around a special point or coordinate?

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [February 27, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219 "2017-02-27T16:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![mehran\_fa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mehran\_fa](https://community.cesium.com/u/mehran_fa)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219/1 "2017-02-27T16:19:50Z")

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Hello  
I have serious problem and would really appreciate if you could help me.

I wanted to know if we can get height of buildings and obstacles around a special coordinate on map. I think it could be accessed before by google earth but now they have shut down their service for developers.  
Could we get access to this data on Cesium map?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![hannah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/hannah/32/4509_2.png) [@hannah](https://community.cesium.com/u/hannah)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219/2 "2017-02-27T17:43:40Z")

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Hello,

If you have building models, you can use pickPosition to get the height. See the pickPosition part of this example: [http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Apps/Sandcastle/index.html?src=Picking.html&label=Showcases](http://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Apps/Sandcastle/index.html?src=Picking.html&label=Showcases)

Best,

Hannah

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**Author:** ![mehran\_fa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mehran\_fa](https://community.cesium.com/u/mehran_fa)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219/3 "2017-03-01T08:15:13Z")

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Thanks for your response Hannah. But I don have the model and actually i don want to provide any model. I just want to get height of buildings around a arbitrary point on the map. Does Cesium give out this  
service?

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**Author:** ![hannah](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/hannah/32/4509_2.png) [@hannah](https://community.cesium.com/u/hannah)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/how-to-get-height-or-altitude-of-buildings-around-a-special-point-or-coordinate/5219/4 "2017-03-01T13:21:06Z")

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Sorry, no, Cesium does not have a service like this.

-Hannah