Terrain study

Create a visual study of shaded relief using a Sample Elevation Model and document with a 500 - 750 word explanation/reflection of design choices.

You should model the visual study on Plates 5-6 or Plates 11-12 and 14 from Eduard Imhof’s Cartographic Relief Presentation.

Please note: there is no need to create a separate map taxonomy sheet as you have for the two previous projects (because the study itself functions as a taxonomy).

For your written explanation/reflection, please try to respond to these four prompts:

  1. What does your study try to compare?
  2. Why did you decide to focus on these elements?
  3. How do you interpret the comparisons you show (what differences and similarities do you see)?
  4. What principles or rules of thumb for making shaded relief base maps does your study suggest?

Terrain map examples

Imhof

Glaziallandschaft im Glattal, by Eduard Imhof

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Dacks close-up

Dacks wall map

Adirondack Park Wall Maps
by Tom Patterson

Juneau Trek

Juneau Trek
by Marty Schnure