Originally Posted By: Roger
Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Generally the federal government has this data on record somewhere, because it's useful for all kinds of things.


They might not make it publicly available (or, if they do, they might charge for it), though. For example, the last time I looked into it (which was about 10-12 years ago, admittedly), Canadian DEM files were freely available at a certain horizontal resolution (maybe 50m?), but you had to pay if you wanted, say, 10m resolution data.

I fed the data for Whistler into an OpenGL demo app I found; it looked pretty cool. This was before Google Earth, btw.

I've only been looking at this stuff in the last year, but I think things have changed for the better -- for example, the full resolution of the SRTM dataset (30m) was made freely available in 2015.