3D terrain was introduced in Mapbox GL JS in v2 (announcement), providing a seamless digital elevation basemap. I’ve seen some questions about how to: a.) display custom terrain in Mapbox, and b.) how to augment the existing Mapbox terrain with your own elevation data. I outline methods for approximating both below. Choose an area of …
In October, we released Terradactile (blog post here), an app hatched during hackathon designed to find, process, and download AWS Terrain tiles. The original application allowed the user to select an area of interest, process the contained elevation data into cloud optimized derived products including a seamless elevation and derived hillshade surface, and view/download the …
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