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I wish there were tiles similar to swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof's shaded relief maps. In my opinion, this is slowly but surely becoming a lost art form: http

• ZeroGravitas 15y ago
  There are already tiles like this, including the ones at this link. It seems like Imhof was part of the inspiration for creating them: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer.html http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer.html http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer/foreground.html http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer/foreground... Though those are US only, similar tech is available for worldwide maps. Compare: http://www.library.ethz.ch/exhibit/imhof/images/d1.1.jpg http://www.library.ethz.ch/exhibit/imhof/images/d1.1.jpg http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.94684&layers=00B00TFFFF http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.946... http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.94684&layers=B0000TFFFF http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.946... The primary differences are choice of colorscheme and the fact that the OSM examples are targetted at screen DPI and the paper map was probably intended to be wall mounted. That's not a limitation of OSM, you can target different resolutions and print to large paper too, it's just not as common. Here's an example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:3274048625_815c60625e.jpg http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:3274048625_815c60625...