Here's a render of what I was able to do quickly with the mountain that would import from the DEM format in Vue 5. If this isn't incentive enough to work at getting this thing into Vue whole I don't know what is. I just got this from the usgs site: "Hi, There were some problems with the site. They have been fixed. Please try again. If you still have problems, please call or email. Thank you" Looks like they actually watch that stuff, and I'm not crazy (at least when it comes to the map not working anyway) Great Work Rids! I agree, that looks like the most promising format we can get ahold of so far (and is definately loads better than the 10meter resolution we've lived with for a while now anyway) Will you be able to upload it here or somewhere else? Keep us posted.