How 3D Terrain Works
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A mountain map should show more than roads and contour lines. It should make the shape of the landscape immediately clear: the valley ahead, the ridge beside a route, and the elevation separating two nearby points.
GLMap SDK 2.0 turns the map itself into that landscape. The same vector map rises with the terrain, while labels, tracks, markers, and elevation overlays stay in place.
Terrain is one of the headline features in the GLMap 2.0 release. Here is what it adds and how little an application needs to change to use it.