This week I’ll be rocketing down to the NACIS 2018 conference, which is one of my favorite weeks of the year. In a Practical Cartography Day whirlwind session I’ll talk about a code-free workflow to make contours know which direction they are facing (illuminated contours, Tanaka contours, etc.), so they give a better sense of up or down and just look fun. Inspired by August Chevalier and Andy Woodruff, and encouraged by the research of Bernie Jenny.
Here’s a quick jumble of examples that fell off the conveyor belt…
Happy Aspect-Aware Contour Mapping! John