Cesium terrain altitude discrepancy

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Hi,

I am working on an application where I am interested in sampling the terrain altitude when a user clicks on the Cesium globe. What I’m finding is that there are large discrepancies in the reported altitudes between the Cesium terrain and Google Earth, which I am considering “truth” in this case. Is this to be expected, or is there something I am doing wrong/can do differently (use a different asset, missing an offset, AGL vs. MSL, etc.). I’ve included an example of the reported altitude difference that I am seeing.

Thanks in advance.

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Which function are you using to get the altitude value shown there—would you mind sharing your code? This past forum post had a similar question, and the asker was ultimately linked to a related CesiumJS issue with this comment that might explain the discrepancy.