| Marianna Serebryakova, APPLYING SWISS MOUNTAIN RELIEF SHADING TECHNIQUES WITHIN RUSSIAN |
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Geographia Technica, Special Issue, 2010, pp. 126 - 133 APPLYING SWISS MOUNTAIN RELIEF SHADING TECHNIQUES WITHIN RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF CARTOGRAPHYMarianna SerebryakovaABSTRACT: Inspired by the works of Eduard Imhof in shaded relief mapping and cartographic relief
presentation the author reviews Imhof`s legacy and applies it to improvement of Russian
school of mountain cartography. The aim of this paper is to expand the knowledge gained
through learning the "Swiss Style Coloured Relief Shading" method and its adaptation to
the Russian way of depicting relief and natural environment. The paper also focuses on
developing new techniques of hypsometric tinting as well as cliff drawings. So far, there is
a limited access to pictorial maps created by Russian institutions in the public domain on
the Internet, which would demonstrate precise shaded relief of highlands regions of Russia.
Development of Russian heritage and interaction with representatives of significant schools
all over the world would give rise to mountaineering, widespread tourism, eco tourism
around South and East Siberia, Far East, Ural, Caucasus regions. It is therefore concluded
that there is a number of ways for Russian mountain relief mapping to be developed and
enriched on the basis of Swiss cartographic tradition. |
