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Have you evaluated SRTM (or some patched up derivative) for your latter use case?

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.

https://github.com/andrewharvey/srtm-stylesheets might help

(Full disclose I'm the author)

This looks awesome. Using those scripts I think I could actually do this myself.

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