In a previous post I alluded to using OSM as a texture map in a perspective rendering. I created the tiles through a mapserver-based WMS serving up the OSM data through postgresql.
Years ago I wrote an "elevation server" that - among other things - generates hillshade with elevation colors based on custom color lookup tables. I've been playing around chaining these two services to produce distinctive looking images. Here are a few examples.
The "desert" motif (click on image for high res version):
The "winter" motif (click on image for high res version):
...And something for people who like really saturated colors (click on image for high res version):
The elevation server has great potential for generating custom tiles for web mapping apps and very high resolution images for cartographic projects. In the coming weeks, we'll roll this service out to those who are interested - so stay in touch!
Periodically we like to showcase our clients' successes - successes that we feel we've made some humble contribution toward. Beartooth Publishing, from Bozeman, MT, has been producing a plethora of award-winning maps. They've published 2 maps that have
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We've mentioned the elevation server here and here. It's a versatile web service that provides DEM data, slope maps and highly customizable hillshade imagery. Recently, I've played around with producing imagery for use with the major commercial web ma
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