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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by maxerickson on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @02:57PM (#17023680)
Have you evaluated SRTM (or some patched up derivative) for your latter use case?
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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by plopz on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:33PM (#17024046)
Yeah, its unfortunately missing a lot of alaska. But the main problem is I have no idea how to reproject it into web-mercator and generate usable tiles from it.
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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by andrewharvey on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @08:10PM (#17026460)
https://github.com/andrewharvey/srtm-stylesheets might help

(Full disclose I'm the author)

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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google... by plopz on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @11:23AM (#17030517)
This looks awesome. Using those scripts I think I could actually do this myself.
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