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When planning a hike or sightseeing excursion, it's always a good idea to see the altitude. Here's how to find elevation on Google Maps.

Low German Old Colony Mennonites, who have been settling across Latin America for the past 100 years, have cleared 495 hectares (1,223 acres) of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon so far this year. The illegal deforestation documented by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) is part of an ongoing expansion in the region […]

>> reporter: take photos. upload the data. >> so this is an ezry base map. >> analyze it. >> it doesn't appear to have widened. >> reporter: and repeat. >> take off. >> reporter: this week, they watched as a massive fast-moving lava flow cut off highway 132 creeping down it for two miles leaving a pile of shifting lava some ten feet high. >> it will be seemingly cool at the surface, but there's actually still a lot of heat in there. >> reporter: some of that lava is headed toward another highway, the only remaining escape route for some communities. officials have now given some neighborhoods ...

>> i feel like we are. >> reporter: as the lava moves, the group's routine stays largely the same. fly -- >> just at about 100 meters altitude. >> reporter: -- take photos, upload the data. so this is a base map. and analyze it and repeat. this week they watched as a massive fast-moving lava flow cut off highway 132, creeping down it for two miles, leaving a pile of shifting lava some 10 feet high. >> it will be seemingly cool at the surface, but there's actually still a lot of heat in there. >> reporter: some of that lava is headed toward another highway, the only remaining escape route for s...

Very stiff resistance. wolf? >> excellent explanation, tom foreman, thank you. let's bring in ocean scientist ellen prager joining us from miami. that was a good explanation from tom, and i understand that bottom over there, the floor of the indian ocean where they are searching has never been mapped at all, so they are not sure what's down there, right? >> that's correct. in fact, you know, you can go on the web and bring up a picture of the bottom topography of the world ocean and it looks like we know what's there, but, in fact, that's a base map that's done from satellite and it's only alo...