I am experimenting with CSS filters and blend modes to merge a hillshade map layer with a satellite imagery map layer, with noble (or, eh, ignoble) cartographic goals. Anyway, it goes like this…
Take an imagery basemap, like this…
Give it some CSS Filter secret sauce, then add a hillshade layer, like this…
And give it a sweet sweet CSS blend mode so that those pixels weave together into a symphony of landcover and shadow…
And I dig it. Here are some other locations…
Adventures In Mapping 
As a joke, I think the last example maps should be of Indiana, Illinois, or Kansas 🙂
Seriously, though, how can you make flat, boring topographies look interesting? Not everyone lives near mountains, volcanos, canyons, or glaciers.
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By appreciating lakes, clouds, and good people.
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No, that’s too wholesome. 🙂
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