Map with relief/terrain?

General talk
1

Hello

As a cyclist, relief is an important parameter when choosing a route to go from A to B.

I was wondering if there were an OSM-based map that displays relief/terrain like this:

http://fr-fr.topographic-map.com/maps/50.792387956151344,4.2300785944091785,50.893845512661734,4.458731548510741/?Name=Bruxelles

Thank you.

2

Maybe not exactly what you want, but the

http://cycle.travel/map

map has beautiful relief rendering like few others.

3

Your example shows the “relief” map.
Just click the dropdown and choose “4UMap”, then it shows the openstreetmap.
Despite the google-logo in the corner, that’s wrong.

4

Thanks for the tip.

I’m actually looking for the same type of map but with a router, so I can see what the terrain looks like after it offers a route.

I find the map from www.topographic-map.com much more telling than eg. Cycle.travel or OpenTopoMap.

5

Maybe you do, but most people dont: false colour maps like these regularly appear in annual listings of awful maps. Also using the same range of colours for somewhere as flat as Belgium and for Switzerland gives a very odd impression.

cycle.travel is built & designed by an experienced cartographer which results in a clear uncluttered style which works across Europe & North America. It includes a router and viewable elevation profiles of routes. I know which I prefer.

6

Graphhopper gives you a neat altitude profile when you plan a trip.

7

Locus Map Pro on Android, with offline OSM vector maps, has a coloured-altitude option like your example above. Also colored-by-gradient (for skiers etc.), and just plain old slope shading. I prefer the latter. :sunglasses:

8

Thanks for the tip.

Maybe the author of www.topographic-map.com will add a router one of these days.