Multiscale Hypsometric Mapping - Advances in Cartography and GIScience - page 515

Figure 12: Map layers structure
Every scale group has its own scale range. Group switching is made auto-
matically when scale changes.
We used combination of hypsometric tints, contours and hillshading gen-
erated from the same DEM LoD. Hypsometric tints are successive between
scales, and free of bright and saturated colors that can tire eyes while look-
ing at computer screen. At the same time they are oriented on combination
with hillshades, thus they are lightening ( Figure 13 ) . Gradient color shad-
ing is used in scales 1:1 000 000 and greater based on colors from
1:2 500 000 hypsometric scale.