| ▲ | colechristensen 15 hours ago |
| It's wild in the upper midwest you can SEE the glacial effects on the terrain better than any topo map I've seen before. |
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| ▲ | tombh 15 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I was wondering that too, that this might be a better visualisation of certain geological features. But I don't have much experience, so can't say for sure. |
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| ▲ | colechristensen 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's a sort of high-pass filter I guess? Using the curvature of the earth to highlight local changes in elevation. | | |
| ▲ | tombh 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not that familiar with high-pass filters. But yes it's the way it exposes local changes in elevation that is unique. Indeed the heatmap is generated dynamically for every change to the zoom and viewport. |
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