[OSM-talk] new Hillshade Layer for Europe at osm-wms.de available for map overlays

[Alexander Zipf]

Hello,

this message is maybe a little bit off-topic, but as it deals with free 
geodata on top of OSM maybe it is of interest for some of you and may 
save some work:

There is a new hillshade layer (shaded relief) available for (most of) 
Europe at http://www.osm-wms.de
It is suitable as transparent overlay for other online&offline maps in 
order to increase the placticity of the map.
e.g. next to osm-wms.de also OpenRouteService.org is using it now.

Thanks a lot to Michael Auer and Magnus Fees and colleagues (Martin 
Over, Steffen Neubauer, etc.) for processing the data and setting up the 
WMS&TileCache.
Currently it can be used for non-commercial/free applications (as it is 
based on the SRTM data from CIAT-CSI), similar to http://www.osm-3d.org.

This is still in beta test-mode, so the URL/config etc. might change, 
but we can provide it, if you want to use it already now.
In that case we thank you for referencing our work through a link to 
www.osm-wms.de.

have fun
best whishes
a. zipf

http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/
http://www.osm-wms.de
http://www.OpenRouteService.org
http://www.osm-3d.org