{"id":17257,"date":"2021-10-02T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=17257"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:30:31","slug":"custom-shaded-relief-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2021\/10\/02\/custom-shaded-relief-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom shaded relief maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><p>After a few weeks fiddling with the Blender 3D application to make smooth shaded reliefs, I decided to create raster tilesets that could be used with web mapping applications for a unique look. While the shading is not as accurate as multidirectional shading techniques used in GDAL and ArcGIS Pro, it makes a more artistic rendering.<\/p>\n<p>To view a web page with samples, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/boydx.github.io\/hugo-maps\">boydx.github.io\/hugo-maps<\/a> and also learn about the New Maps Plus program at the University of Kentucky).<\/p>\n<h3>Examples<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52011472589_5eae0f0056_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52011472589_eb340a5c68_h.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Open ground features (click for high-resolution 13k version)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52009581053_7ff791ba72_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52009581053_54f388c667_h.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Kentucky bare-earth hillshade (click for hi-res 23k image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,80,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-maps","category-kyfromabove","category-maps","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17259,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}