Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

Jul 26, 2018 1:02:05 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Uriel

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WikiStart

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 To use the data in Maperitive, you must enter the command {{{set-dem-source name=SRTM1}}} or {{{set-dem-source name=SRTM3}}}.
 
-'''Generating the Shading:''' The nicest shading method Maperitive provides is called "Igor Shading", named after the creator of Maperitive. This will generate a single-color terrain shading of the world similar to this: [[Image(12.png)]]
+'''Generating the Shading:''' The nicest shading method Maperitive provides is called "Igor Shading", named after the creator of Maperitive. This will generate a single-color terrain shading of the world similar to the image below. Another method of shading called "hypsometric" provides a multi-colored shading where different altitudes have different colors.
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+[[Image(13.png)]]
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+Igor shading can be generated with the [http://maperitive.net/docs/Commands/GenerateReliefImageIgor.html generate-relief-igor] command. Explicit bounds can be specified, or the command will use the currently set geo bounds in Maperitive ([http://maperitive.net/docs/Commands/SetGeometryBounds.html set-geo-bounds]). An important parameter of the shading is {{{sample-rate}}}. This reduces the size of the image data by subsampling. A sampling rate of 1 will load the entire height image into RAM; a sampling rate of 2 divides this by 4, 3 by 8, and so on. However this also reduces the quality of the image accordingly, so higher sampling rates should only be used for lower zoom levels.
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+Black is the default color for shading but it can be set to other colors.