The conventional way to show terrain is hill-shading, per this Google Terrain map. For many use-cases, like preparing to walk a terrain, or understand its drainage systems, or trace the ridges of its hills, texture-shading is way better 😌. (10 meters per pixel USGS NED data, #Cleveland, #Ohio, USA).

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