This map portrays elevation as an artistic hillshade and provides terrain context while highlighting feature layers and labels.
Map Service Name: World_Hillshade_Dark
Description
Compiled from a variety of sources, including contributions from the GIS User Community, the World Hillshade (Dark) map provides a multidirectional terrain hillshade rendering of 24-meter elevation data globally and 10-meter or better in many parts of the world.
Inspired by the legendary Swiss artist Eduard Imhof, multidirectional hillshade maps present unparalleled views of the world's mountains, plateaus, valleys, and canyons using an algorithm that computes light source from six different directions (as opposed to one direction in a default hillshade). The result is a stunning visualization in both high slope and expressionless areas.
This dark version of World Hillshade is especially useful in building maps that provide terrain context while highlighting feature layers and labels.
Attribution
Sources: Esri, USGS, NGA, NASA, CGIAR, N Robinson, NCEAS, NLS, OS, NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, Rijkswaterstaat, GSA, Geoland, FEMA, Intermap, and the GIS User Community
Coordinate system
Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID 102100)
Tiling scheme
Map service data format
Map server cache in JPEG format
Coverage
As illustrated in the coverage map below, coverage is provided at the following scales:
World Basic (Collection 1)
~1:591,000,000 down to ~1:577,000 worldwide and ~1:144,000 near global
World Standard (Collection 2) and World Advanced (Collection 3)
- ~1:591,000,000 down to ~1:577,000 worldwide and ~1:144,000 near global
- ~1:72,000 to ~1:9,000 in select areas in the United States and Europe
North America Standard (Collection 4) and North America Advanced (Collection 5)
- ~1:591,000,000 down to ~1:144,000
- ~1:72,000 down to ~1:9,000 in select areas