[scuba7183]

Awesome! Does anyone know if similar resources for the US are available?

Edit: possibly https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/LIDAR Still looking for more

[sliverstorm]

This tutorial will direct you to download DEM data for the US:

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-create-garmin-t...

The map viewer you use:

http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

Info about the elevation data you get:

http://nationalmap.gov/3DEP/3dep_prodserv.html

The data is kind of buried, but I went through this process for building maps and it appears to be very high quality.

[Twinklebear]

http://opentopography.org/ is a great resource for US LiDAR data.