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Making a Shaded Relief Map from the Geoscience Australia Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid

September 30, 2012 Leave a comment

I’ve just released some scripts and stylesheets for the Geoscience Australia Australian Bathymetry and Topography Grid data.

Here are some samples of the final outputs. (also available as a layer on my demo slippy map)

ga-ausbath-shaded-relief-extent

 

ga-ausbath-shaded-relief-gbr

ga-ausbath-shaded-relief-tas-landmass

ga-ausbath-shaded-relief-islands

These images based on data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2009, which was released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/.

The code I used to produce these images is CC0, so as far as I am concerned you are free to recreate them under whichever license is compatible with the upstream data. If you just wish to use these images, I license the ones you see here (so only if you grab them from here, rather than re-rendering them) under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/.

 

 

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