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Wow that's really neat. The pinch zoom spins it vs. zoom. Would be curious underlying tech for the topography. Will look into it more. I'm looking for a way to find high rises of land across the world although small elevation (like 100ft) thinking some satellite data dump.

Edit: I see the info below posted by OP thanks.

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If you're looking for something worldwide, your best starting point is likely SRTM[1].

If you get into more specific areas you can generally find higher resolution data.

Good luck.

[1] - https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Thanks for the rec

Also consider ETOPO1 [1]. SRTM is kind of old and is treetop instead of groundlevel which may matter for your application.

1: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/

Yeah I'm specifically looking for slopes/cliffs so a generally flat area then a sharp rise.

Hopefully 100 ft is not too small vs. thousands of feet.

I'll check that link out, thanks.

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