Relief Mapping Amongst Tangram

Peter Richardson has published a superb article on the Mapzen Blog which lead maintain you lot on a journeying from the greatest historical relief maps to the wonders of interactive WebGL relief maps. Mapping Mountains includes roughly bully examples of historical relief maps together with too explores how you lot tin strength out operate a few tricks inward WebGL to emulate the relief map designs of roughly of history's finest cartographers.

The article explains how using WebGL it is possible to operate 3d 'normal mapping' together with lite sources to practise actually impressive relief map layers for interactive maps. The article is necessarily technical inward nature exactly happily, for us non-super human cartographers, it too includes loads of actually impressive interactive relief maps.

Be certain to cheque out Peter's 'gratuitously animated contour map' together with the metallic element relief map examples.