A starttofinish assembly of a vintage hillshade image, warped onto geography, colorized and blended with modern satellite imagery. You'll see it all, I skipped nothing of the process. Grab some popcorn, don your map nerd hat, and settle in for some obviouslyMidwesternaccented map making fun.

Here are some resources and background...

Source hillshade image:
http://www.shadedreliefarchive.com/Ye...

Bill van Allmen:
http://www.reliefshading.com/cartogra...

ArcGIS Pro (the map tool I used):
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/proapp/

My stuff...

Adventures In Mapping map nerd blog:
https://adventuresinmapping.com

More tecy howto blog for map nerds:
https://www.esri.com/arcgisblog/auth...

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