Those comments were more at pastmaps.

For elevation data, we store our DEM/DSM in S3 as LERC [1] COGS, LERC has a WASM bundle which I think can be used in the browser. We found LERC COGs to be one of the most space efficient ways of storing highresolution DEM/DSM data [2], If you wanted to you could fetch LERC tiles directly out of a remote COG and use that directly for the terrain heights.

I am more focused on storage/archiving/publishing of our LiDAR capture program [3] than web based visualizations of it though, so I am unsure if a LERC COG would even be better for you than a PNG TerrainRGB.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/lerc

[2] https://github.com/linz/elevation/tree/master/docs/tiff-comp...

[3] https://linz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid...