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You may want to have a look at the grid_map package, it's a very powerful map storage and visualisation library. You can store any number of layers of information, including elevation data that you describe. It can support many different layers which can be configured at runtime.

I think you'll have to adapt gmapping to be able to work with this, but it's not impossible that someones done this too.

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