Meet Landscape, a unique artistic base map designed to bring clarity, beauty, and storytelling to your data visualizations.
Whether you are building a hiking app, creating a tourism portal, or designing a custom dashboard, you need a map that doesn’t just show location—it tells a story. Landscape offers a clean, expressive canvas that ensures your data stands out.
A hand-crafted look with machine precision
The standout feature of Landscape is its hand-drawn hillshade raster tileset. We’ve taken the classic cartographic practice of pencil-and-brush terrain shading and reimagined it for the digital age.
Inspired by the gold standard set by renowned Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof, we trained advanced machine learning algorithms to mimic the artistic decisions of a skilled mapmaker. The result? A global map that captures the essence of Swiss tradition with the consistency of modern technology.
The hand-drawn hillshade is part of the Landscape map, but can be used separately in your custom maps.
Clarity at every scale
Landscape adapts to your user's journey, offering a consistent and beautiful experience across the globe:
- Small scales: Terrain is kept clear and unobtrusive, perfect for broad overviews.
- Medium scales: Hillshading becomes expressive, highlighting the flow of the land.
- Large scales: We combine the hand-drawn effect with standard terrain-RGB to emphasize shadows and valleys.
Hand-drawn hillshade combined with terrain RGB
Start telling your story
Your users deserve a map that inspires exploration. Landscape is available now in your Cloud account.
