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v2 SPS Tiles Posted
I’ve posted new tiles with the following changes:
Whiter glaciers/permanent snow with blue contour lines. I talked about this in a previous post.
Change forest color depending on density (only in Yosemite and Sequoia/King’s Canyon NP so far). I also mentioned this in a previous post.
Non-SPS peak names. Discussed earlier as well.
Pass names.
Trail names, mostly in the [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2010 under Closed Contour, cartography.
Tags: cartography
Comments: 2
Glacier Contours
I consider the USGS 7.5′ quads to be among the best topographic maps around. That said, working around their shortcomings is the primary cartographic motivation for Closed Contour. Right now I feel like I have a ways to go before I can claim that my maps are ‘better’ (how ever you define it) than the [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2010 under Closed Contour, Technique, cartography.
Tags: contours, glaciers, postgis, postgresql, sql
Comments: none