### Author:  [@pierrep](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/pierrep)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/1 "2025-02-12T11:08:34Z")
Hello,
I’m currently running some tests with OpenRouteService v9.0.1 using Docker to build graphs and run the service.
I’m facing an issue: I’m trying to disable elevation, but it doesn’t seem to work. Elevation data is still being downloaded, even when I set:
- `ors.engine.profiles..build.elevation=false` and
- `ors.engine.profile_default.build.elevation=false`
Here is my config:
```auto
logging:
level:
root: TRACE
ors:
engine:
elevation: false
init_threads: 10
preparation_mode: true
profile_default:
build:
elevation: false
profiles:
foot-walking-no-elevation:
enabled: true
encoder_name: foot-walking
build:
source_file: files/ile-de-france-latest.osm.pbf
elevation: false
instructions: false
interpolate_bridges_and_tunnels: false
```
The command I use to start the build:
```auto
docker run -ti --rm --name ors-app \
-p 8082:8082 \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/config:/home/ors/config \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/elevation_cache:/home/ors/elevation_cache \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/graphs:/home/ors/graphs \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/files:/home/ors/files \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/logs:/home/ors/logs \
-e "XMS=2g" \
-e "XMX=8g" \
openrouteservice/openrouteservice:v9.1.0
```
What I see in the logs:
```auto
2025-02-12 11:01:47 DEBUG [o.a.c.w.Cache] - Increased cache size by [531] for item [org.apache.catalina.webresources.CachedResource@56fda064] at [/elevation_cache] making total cache size [1063]
[...]
2025-02-12 11:02:00 INFO [c.g.r.d.CGIARProvider] - cgiar Elevation Provider, from: https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/wp-content/uploads/files/srtm_5x5/TIFF/, to: /home/ors/elevation_cache, as: MMAP_STORE using interpolate: false
[...]
2025-02-12 11:02:02 DEBUG [s.n.w.p.h.HttpURLConnection] - sun.net.www.MessageHeader@5a88a0257 pairs: {GET /wp-content/uploads/files/srtm_5x5/TIFF//srtm_37_03.zip HTTP/1.1: null}{Referrer: http://graphhopper.com}{User-Agent: GraphHopper CGIARReader}{Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate}{Host: srtm.csi.cgiar.org}{Accept: */*}{Connection: keep-alive}
2025-02-12 11:02:02 DEBUG [s.n.w.p.h.HttpURLConnection] - sun.net.www.MessageHeader@4a6ee5a510 pairs: {null: HTTP/1.1 200 OK}{Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:03:36 GMT}{Server: Apache}{Last-Modified: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:28:28 GMT}{ETag: "1ba97f7-45749bc3789dd"}{Accept-Ranges: bytes}{Content-Length: 29005815}{Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100}{Connection: Keep-Alive}{Content-Type: application/zip}
```
Am I missing something?
---
### Author:  [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/2 "2025-02-12T12:29:36Z")
Hey,
no, I’d also think that this would disable elevation.
However, it seems that you actually have to remove `elevation` from the config file completely to not download any elevation:
```yaml
logging:
level:
root: DEBUG
ors:
engine:
init_threads: 10
preparation_mode: true
profiles:
foot-walking-no-elevation:
enabled: true
encoder_name: foot-walking
build:
source_file: files/ile-de-france-latest.osm.pbf
instructions: false
interpolate_bridges_and_tunnels: false
```
is the config file that didn’t download any elevation tiles for me 🙂
I’ll open an issue about this, thanks a lot!
Best regards
---
### Author:  [@pierrep](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/pierrep)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/3 "2025-02-12T14:37:44Z")
Thank you for your help and for creating the issue ([https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/1967](https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/1967)).
I tried the config file you provided, but it doesn’t seem to fix the issue.
When I run the command **with** the `elevation_cache` volume, it creates the folder and downloads the files:
```auto
docker run -ti --rm --name ors-app \
-p 8082:8082 \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/config:/home/ors/config \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/elevation_cache:/home/ors/elevation_cache \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/graphs:/home/ors/graphs \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/files:/home/ors/files \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/logs:/home/ors/logs \
-e "XMS=2g" \
-e "XMX=8g" \
openrouteservice/openrouteservice:v9.1.0
```
When I run the command **without** the `elevation_cache` volume, the folder isn’t persisted, but I can still see in the logs that elevation data is being downloaded:
```auto
docker run -ti --rm --name ors-app \
-p 8082:8082 \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/config:/home/ors/config \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/graphs:/home/ors/graphs \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/files:/home/ors/files \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/logs:/home/ors/logs \
-e "XMS=2g" \
-e "XMX=8g" \
openrouteservice/openrouteservice:v9.1.0
```
```auto
2025-02-12 14:34:04 INFO [c.g.r.d.CGIARProvider] - cgiar Elevation Provider, from: https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/wp-content/uploads/files/srtm_5x5/TIFF/, to: /home/ors/elevation_cache, as: MMAP_STORE using interpolate: false
2025-02-12 14:34:05 DEBUG [s.n.w.p.h.HttpURLConnection] - sun.net.www.MessageHeader@5b89116b7 pairs: {GET /wp-content/uploads/files/srtm_5x5/TIFF//srtm_37_03.zip HTTP/1.1: null}{Referrer: http://graphhopper.com}{User-Agent: GraphHopper CGIARReader}{Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate}{Host: srtm.csi.cgiar.org}{Accept: */*}{Connection: keep-alive}
2025-02-12 14:34:06 DEBUG [s.n.w.p.h.HttpURLConnection] - sun.net.www.MessageHeader@7ff5736d10 pairs: {null: HTTP/1.1 200 OK}{Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:35:40 GMT}{Server: Apache}{Last-Modified: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:28:28 GMT}{ETag: "1ba97f7-45749bc3789dd"}{Accept-Ranges: bytes}{Content-Length: 29005815}{Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100}{Connection: Keep-Alive}{Content-Type: application/zip}
```
---
### Author:  [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/4 "2025-02-12T14:43:34Z")
Huh, for me, the `elevation_cache` folder stays empty if I run with the provided config…
Could you confirm that all folders are empty, except for the `config` one, which should only contain `ors-config.yml` before running the docker command you provided?
Best regards
---
### Author:  [@pierrep](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/pierrep)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/5 "2025-02-12T16:03:36Z")
So, I only have the following folders and files when I run the command:
- ors-docker/config
– ors-config.yml
- ors-docker/files
– ile-de-france-latest.osm.pbf
```auto
docker run -ti --rm --name ors-app \
-p 8082:8082 \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/config:/home/ors/config \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/elevation_cache:/home/ors/elevation_cache \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/graphs:/home/ors/graphs \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/files:/home/ors/files \
-v $PWD/ors-docker/logs:/home/ors/logs \
-e "XMS=2g" \
-e "XMX=8g" \
openrouteservice/openrouteservice:v9.1.0
```
After running the command, I have the following files:
- ors-docker/config
– example-ors-config.env
– example-ors-config.yml
– ors-config.yml
- ors-docker/elevation\_cache
– srtm\_37\_03.gh
– srtm\_37\_03.zip
- ors-docker/files
– example-heidelberg.test.pbf
– ile-de-france-latest.osm.pbf
- ors-docker/graphs
– foot-walking-no-elevation/\*
- logs
– ors.log
I’m running `openrouteservice/openrouteservice:v9.1.0` on Docker 4.14.1 on OSX 15.3.
I’m not sure if this information helps, but please let me know if I can share any other relevant logs or data.
---
### Author:  [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/6 "2025-02-18T08:19:29Z")
Hey,
then I am out of ideas, and I cannot replicate having something in the `elevation_cache`-folder if I do _not_ have any `elevation` present in the config file and start from empty files…
Does it matter to you?
Routing will not behave differently whether elevation is present or not, and file sizes shouldn’t matter much…
Best regards
---
### Author:  [@adam](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/adam)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/7 "2025-02-18T08:41:03Z")
I just ran this on my mac and it is also downloading the elevation data, so maybe it is a mac thing?
---
### Author:  [@pierrep](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/pierrep)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/cannot-disable-elevation/6969/8 "2025-02-18T14:59:02Z")
Hello @jschnell,
Thank you for taking the time to look into this. I will try to replicate it on a brand-new engine and provide a procedure.