terrain – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 01:34:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg terrain – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Landforms of Michigan https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/04/landforms-of-michigan/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:00:43 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1788630 More]]>
Daniel Huffman, “Landforms of Michigan” (2020).

Daniel Huffman finally finished a map he’d been working on, off and on (though mostly off), for years. Landforms of Michigan appeared in draft form on this 2016 blog post about mapping terrain using Photoshop layers; last week, Daniel says, “I finally overcame my inertia enough to finish it.” It’s available as a large poster on Zazzle.

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Mapping Mountains https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/03/mapping-mountains/ Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:23:08 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1390 mapzen-terrain

Mapzen’s Peter Richardson takes us from elevation data to final shaded terrain map, showing us the steps taken to produce maps of mountainous terrain. [via]

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