[OSM-dev] Shaded relief in OSM

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Dec 5 15:21:13 GMT 2007


In message <D4A3B7AB-5192-4678-A997-9E3EC0060546 at gmail.com>
        Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Jon Burgess pointed me to : http://www.shadedrelief.com/ and I  
> downloaded some data, warped into Mercator and rendered tiles with  
> Mapnik.
> Here are results : http://mapnik.org/maps/natural_earth/
> This is a very rough cut and I'm aware of some problems ..
>
> Should we be using this data (public domain AFAIK)  for mapnik layer  
> or on separate layer ? What do cartographers think?

I would think the obvious thing to do is to change our current
layers to have a transparent background, then we can get OL to
render them over other things if we want - be that relief tiles
like this or OAM imagery or whatever.

Tom

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