{"id":1809358,"date":"2022-10-13T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809358"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:35:40","slug":"eduard-a-new-mac-only-relief-shading-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/10\/eduard-a-new-mac-only-relief-shading-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduard, a New Mac-only Relief Shading App"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eduard<\/a>Launching at NACIS<\/a>, which is next week, but\u00a0available on the Mac App Store<\/a> now, Eduard<\/a> is a Mac-only application that generates relief maps by \u201c[using] machine learning to match the aesthetics and details of relief shadings created by Swiss cartographers.\u201d (The name is a pretty obvious reference to Eduard Imhof<\/a>.) The app allows you to adjust direction of illumination, aerial perspective and detail, and works with digital elevation models and a number of file formats. The launch price is US$69.99 (C$99.99) until the 23rd, after which I presume the price will go up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Launching at NACIS, which is next week, but\u00a0available on the Mac App Store now, Eduard is a Mac-only application that generates relief maps by \u201c[using] machine learning to match the aesthetics and details of relief… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[601,210,802],"class_list":["post-1809358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gis","tag-mac","tag-relief-maps","tag-software","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2145,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/eduard-imhof-profile\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809358,"position":0},"title":"Eduard Imhof Profile","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 June 2016","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/164529891 A profile of Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof, famous for his work on relief mapping, from a 1983 Swiss TV program. 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