Hillshading
Hillshading is a technique for creating relief maps, showing the topographical shape of hills and mountains using shading (levels of gray) on a map, just to indicate relative slopes, mountain ridges, not absolute height.
OpenStreetMap data can be combined with relief data in a rendering tool, and several tools support hillshading:
- Shaded relief maps using mapnik a possible set of steps to work with Mapnik
- Mapbox GL JS example
- MapSurfer.NET
- Hillshade tile server
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