Styling Contour Lines

This contour map of Schiehallion Mountain shows the place inwards Scotland where Charles Hutton invented contour lines equally purpose of an experiment to operate out the density of the Earth. In club to decide the density of the mount the Schiehallion Experiment needed to accurately survey the mountain. During this survey Hutton striking upon the visit of using a serial of lines at laid upwards intervals to present points of equal height.

My contour map of Schiehallion Mountain was made using axismaps novel Contours map tool. Contours is a fun novel tool for making a contour map of whatsoever place inwards the world, manner the map in addition to export it inwards a release of unlike formats.


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 huge total of fun tin last had playing amongst the styling tools inwards Contours. Using these tools yous tin color in addition to weight the mapped contour lines, accommodate the describe of piece of employment intervals in addition to color or hypsometric tint the background fill. All of these changes to the styles of your mapped contours induce got house inside the map browser.

You tin read to a greater extent than most the novel Contours tool on the axismaps blog.