Tom Patterson

A gallery of my free-for-the-taking maps. You are invited to stop by and scroll around. shadedrelief.com/map-gallery.ht…

Mapping where I am right now (about where the "B" is in Baltic. Next stop: Tallinn.

Map details: Natural Earth projection centered on 11E, created from merged GEBCO + SWOT bathymetry data, rendered as plan oblique relief using Eduard and NSD 10.

My wife has a part-time gig leading cruise ship tours. When accompanying her, I always bring a big map project to work on. Labeling this one should keep me busy.

Embossing OSM data in Photoshop is a quick way to depict towns. Buildings up, roads down. Full map here: shadedrelief.com/adk-high-peaks/

Hiking in Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant, Mallorca. Where I am this week.

Joe Milbrath brought this 3D map of Lake Clark NP, Alaska, to ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop in Czechia.

@fxnkls We are with the Mapy.com guys at this conference 👍

@MtnMapper The Czech alternative to gMaps is called mapy.com ;) It's very good. 🚶🏻‍➡️

Ink on paper: An alternative to Google Maps for hiking in Czechia.

The team of Dušan Petrovič, Jim Meacham, Alex Fries, and Katharina Deflorian won mountain trivia last night at the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop. They scored 18 out of 27 possible points. See if you can beat them: shadedrelief.com/trivia2026/

Visiting Bozeman, Montana. If you live in the area, come by for my talk tonight. escicolloquium.weebly.com

@TrailRating The detail in the 1m DEMs did a nice job accentuating the rugged Adirondack terrain, which I enhanced with texture shading.

@MtnMapper That’s a beautiful map render. How did you find it working with the 1m DEMs?

A new 3D map of my native Adirondacks built from 1-meter DEMs. Available for free: shadedrelief.com/adk-high-peaks

@intellivisi0x From the French "au sable" meaning "of sand"

@MtnMapper Ausable is such a weird word 😀

Alfresco cartography on a beautiful spring morning.

Where I'll be later this month for the ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop. Or is it Czechia?

I am preparing a hybrid bathymetric dataset from merged GEBCO and BathDNN25, which derives from NASA SWOT. It is super clean. Here's the Mariana Trench rendered as plan oblique relief—with cast shadows thrown in for good measure.

Great news. Natural Scene Designer Pro 10, packed with a slew of new features including AI enhancement of 3D scenes, is available for Mac. Windows version coming soon. naturalgfx.com

Today's project: Write fun questions for this upcoming event. Do you know your mountains? These are the questions (and answers) from the 2024 contest: shadedrelief.com/trivia2024/

@Jergote Thank you. The next map update will have most of what you recommended.

Version 1.0 of my latest map with over 3,400 place names. Please take a look. I will update it based on your feedback. Thanks! shadedrelief.com/europe/

@shiMusa2 Thank you. Because the river flows through several countries that have different spellings for it, I thought it best to use the English exonym: Rhine. Same thing for the Danube.

@MtnMapper There is Basel, right at the 3 nations border and in German, the river is called "Rhein". Great map!