Real earth data source?

[PTTG]

I'm looking for some kind of raw earth maps- particularly height maps. What I'd like to do is use these as source data for a procedural terrain generator. Does anyone have some good, somewhat detailed earth topography maps?

[Hai-Etlik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle...graphy_Mission

[Redrobes]

Some links I have collected.

http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/

http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp

http://seamless.usgs.gov/

http://glovis.usgs.gov/

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathyme...tdownload.html

http://www.geomapapp.org/index.htm

[monks]

http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

[waldronate]

http://www.vterrain.org is a good source for data links, papers on the subject, and code samples.

[pixelpusher]

http://www.shadedrelief.com/ Has pretty much everything I've ever needed in raster images.

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Great datasets in vector.