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I think the heightmaps need to be processed before they can be used in the tools for the Elderscrolls but I’m not entirely sure how that works. Can try to find out, though!

Not necessarily! In theory, archive formats support sizes of several exabytes. As for downloading speed, it’d be a pain on anything but a 1 Gbps fiber connection (would only take an hour there) but a download manager would help with that. Storage would also be an issue, as well as unpacking the archive. To work with it and to process all of the files, it’d probably take at least a workstation class system running Linux to do things efficiently. A lot of it depends on how their data is laid out

Excellent! I’ve gotten pretty good at minesweeper over here. Took a while to truly get the hang of it but it’s pretty enjoyable!

Here’s another source: https://opentopography.org/

It’s not fully global, though. Some of the access requires a subscription, too.