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by ge96 1439 days ago
Wow that's really neat. The pinch zoom spins it vs. zoom. Would be curious underlying tech for the topography. Will look into it more. I'm looking for a way to find high rises of land across the world although small elevation (like 100ft) thinking some satellite data dump.

Edit: I see the info below posted by OP thanks.

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If you're looking for something worldwide, your best starting point is likely SRTM[1].

If you get into more specific areas you can generally find higher resolution data.

Good luck.

[1] - https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Thanks for the rec
Also consider ETOPO1 [1]. SRTM is kind of old and is treetop instead of groundlevel which may matter for your application.

1: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/

Yeah I'm specifically looking for slopes/cliffs so a generally flat area then a sharp rise.

Hopefully 100 ft is not too small vs. thousands of feet.

I'll check that link out, thanks.