Welcome to Shaded Relief - Interactive World Map

You can use this interactive map in the following ways:

  • Measure the distance, area or elevation of map features, share a map & send a link to a colleague to show what you've found.

Search types

  • Simple Search - search for a city, town or village and locate it on the map.
  • Advanced Search - search for any place in the world.  Powered by Geonames
  • Intermodal Resources - locate shipping containers for sale and have sellers compete for your conex business in an auction format.
  • Lat / Long - enter a longitude and latitude to locate a property on the map.
  • Map Types

  • Satellite Images & Maps - shows Google satellite images & Google street maps
  • Hybrid - shows Google satellite images with general road and town overlays
  • Relief - shows shaded relief of the world (Relief+ overlays general road and town from google)
  • Natural - shows Tom Patterson's Natural Earth (Natural+ overlays general roads and towns from Google)
  • VE - shows Microsoft Virtual Earth's street maps
  • Tools

  • Elevation - click anywhere on the map to find the elevation of the clicked point. ( Meters or Feet)
  • Distance - click along a route to find the distance. ( meters, kilometers, feet, yards, miles)
  • Area - measure the area of a building or piece of land (square feet, meters, yards, hectares, acres, kilometers or miles)

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