The terrain surface is subsampled for performance. If the view is slow to draw, reduce the mesh size.
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Until the road is baked into the terrain, anything in cut is hidden below the opaque surface unless the X-ray option is used to render the terrain semi-transparent.
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Occasional spikes are usually LIDAR noise from vegetation. They can be reduced with the Despike button or ignored -- they do not affect the reported quantities.