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		maxerickson 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Overthinking GIS (2024) In the US, 3DEP is driving towards high coverage of extremely accurate elevation data, in areas where it has coverage you wouldn't need to use a distance metric really.

fnands 2 days ago [–]

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Freely available Lidar and derived products (via the USGS API) for nearly the entire country makes working with elevation data a pleasure.

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