Canadian Point Cloud data is available as open data (COPC, LAZ 1.4) from natural-resources.canada.ca
Point cloud files are distributed using the compressed .LAZ / Cloud Optimized Point Cloud (COPC) format.
Point Cloud data is available as open data (COPC, LAZ 1.4) from USGS free of charge and without use restrictions.
An improved national elevation program has the potential to generate $13.5 -billion in new benefits each year once fully operational. 3D Nation Study Final Report
As of September 2023 approximately 94% of the United States landmass has high-resolution (meeting 3DEP quality specifications) elevation data available or in-progress, including over 2000 unique lidar datasets amounting to more than 57 trillion individual points. 3DEP lidar data are freely available and hosted in an Amazon Web Services public S3 bucket as cloud-native Entwine Point Tiles (EPT), a lossless, streamable, octree format based on LASzip (LAZ) encoding. opentopography.org