Exaggerated relief maps tin survive fun to make. However they tin also survive fourth dimension consuming to create. They commonly postulate roughly serious GIS software, a digital elevation model together with a lot of patience. Unless you lot accept an interactive map to practice all the piece of occupation for you.
The Relief Map Viewer is a fun interactive tool which allows you lot to persuasion an exaggerated raised relief map for whatever place inwards the world. Just piece of occupation the search box to navigate to a place together with the Relief Map Viewer volition demo you lot the place amongst the elevation information slightly exaggerated. This is achieved yesteryear overlaying satellite imagery on transcend of an exaggerated digital elevation model.
The Relief Map Viewer includes a expose of tools which let you lot to arrange the map settings. In the 'Map Settings' card you lot tin arrange the superlative multiplier, which allows you lot to exaggerate the elevation to an fifty-fifty greater extent than the default setting. This card also allows you lot to zoom inwards together with out on the map. The 'Lighting' card allows you lot to arrange the intensity together with direction of the lighting effect.
The map was created using the Mapbox SDK for Unity. Mapbox's SDK for Unity includes a global digital elevation model encoded inwards raster tiles. This is what allows the Relief Map Viewer to demo an exaggerated relief map together with to let users to arrange the superlative multiplier on the fly.
