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

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

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

The map viewer you use:

Info about the elevation data you get:

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

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