[Gdal-dev] shaded relief utility

[Paul Surgeon]

On Monday 12 December 2005 23:32, Brent Fraser wrote:
> Paul, Matt,
>
>   And it compiled ok on Windows.  I justed editted the makefile.vc file to
> include hillshade.exe.  I haven't actually tried it yet.
>
>   Like Paul,  I'm actually interested in shading an image file based on a
> DEM (if that's what you meant, Paul)
>
> Brent

No, I meant I need a way to make "color scaled relief maps" (or whatever they 
are called in GIS lingo) from DEMs. The type that has a color gradient based 
on the altitude.

It's pretty simple so I find it hard to believe no one has written an open 
source utility to do it. It's just a matter of trying to find out what's 
available.

I take it what you're after is a way to modulate an existing base image with a 
hillshade image generated from a DEM.

Paul