![]() ![]() While you can generate shaded relief from digital data (using reflectance), hand-shading can often do a better job of highlighting subtleties of terrain detail, as in this comparison of hand-shaded data (left) and digitally-derived data (right) taken from the Shaded Relief Archive comparison page: This is a joint effort from Tom Patterson, creator/manager of the Natural Earth Data website (see this post for more info on the latter site), and Bernhard Jenny (author of the Terrain Bender and Scree Painter tools). ![]() The WeoGeo blog highlights the Shaded Relief Archive, a collection of hand-shaded relief maps freely usable and distributable. ![]() The panoramas look better than the ones generated by the HeyWhatsThat site, but that site offers worldwide coverage, and additional features like viewshed export to Google Earth. Hopefully, the rest of the world will be covered at some point in the future. There’s also a “Telescope 10x” option to blow up a section of the panorama, but I couldn’t get that to work.ĭata resolution is 1 arc-second (30 meters) for the Alps, and 3 arc-second (90 meters for the rest of the world). Peaks are clickable, and you can choose to have a peak location highlighted either in Google Maps, or the Google Earth browser plugin: When everything is set, you have the option of either emailing a copy of the panorama to yourself or someone else, or viewing it in the browser: Entering the exact latitude/longitude, and also setting camera height, distance, viewing angles and more.Īs you adjust the position and parameters, you get a mini-preview of the view at lower-right:.Clicking directly on the map to set the location, then adjusting the direction of view.You have three options for setting the peak location: The Generate a Panorama site lets you generate high-quality panorama views, with labeled peaks, for some areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa moving your mouse cursor over the “Covered areas in Europe, Asia and Africa” link near the top of the page shows the coverage area: ![]()
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