You've seen them! Those achingly beautiful vintage topo or geology maps that have modern 3D hillshade imbued into them.
In this adventure ride of a video we go full Bob Ross with hillshades, colors, blurring, and blending, to bring our charming old topo map to life with modern elevation data! Gosh, this was a fun one.
Here are some related minivideos that focus on some of the features we cover here:
Giving polygon features a faded edge:    • How to Make CoolLooking Callouts wit...  
Nerding out on hillshades:    • Multidirectional Hillshade: Deconstru...  
Hacking an elevation model to look like mist:    • One Minute Map Hack: Boost the Drama ...  
Here's the original map I started with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadran...)
Here's the fullsized completed/hillshaded map made in this video: https://adventuresinmapping.files.wor...

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