[Q] Palettes for coloring

[Christian]

Hi menion,
I'm happy with the new feature
( http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/altitude-map)
and played around with the palettes. But unfortunately i can't get any intensive coloring like you (in the image of Praha).
In my case is always pale light brown or kind of grey

If i understand correctly the numbers in palettes like 0....126 or -1500....4000 are taken by Locus as height above sea levels? Or relative difference in altitude?
Looking for palettes for low mountains range (400-900m above sea level) and for the alps (800-4000m above sea level).

I tried palettes nrw*, alpen, GMT* and other palettes from the link you posted but without any better results.

Thank you for any hint,
Christian

[gynta]

i also don't find any good solution yet.
Default theme and all my own tests ends in a blurring soup.

So same idea here:
Waiting for more (better) examples

[Christian]

May be Locus is optimized for Praha city

[gynta]

Austrian alps:
2 new versions attached (gentle and hard transitions)

 

install: copy the *.cpt files to "..\Locus\data\interpolators" folder:

[Christian]

Ahhh, i got it.
Normally i don't look inside any files.
So i will try to improve any other palettes.
Thanx.

[gynta]

You'r welcome
...and please share your palette.

[scinkk]

There are 4 CPT files. Color gradient is based on this web. The color steps work pretty well I guess 

Download

• lowland.cpt
• highland.cpt
• alps.cpt
• mountains.cpt

Install

Create interpolators folder in Locus > data and download the files to the interpolators folder.

Themes

Lowland.cpt
Range -50 to 1000 m ASL (white color over 1000 m) /  25 m and 50m steps

Highland.cpt
Range 100 to 2000 m ASL (white color over 2000 m) / 50m and 100 m steps

Alps.cpt
Range 400 to 4500 m ASL (white color over it) / 100 and 200 m steps

Mountains.cpt
Range 1000 to 6500 m ASL (white color over it) / 200 and 250 m steps

Screenshots

Lowland theme - Central Bohemian Uplands - Highest peak about 800 m ASL



Highlandtheme - Krkonose mountains - Highest peak 1602 m ASL



Alps theme - Austrian Alps



Mountains theme - Nepal



Highland vs Alps theme - High and Low Tatras in Slovakia



Edit: modiy altitude ranges and steps

[Christian]

That looks nice
Thank you for providing the palettes.
Will test it in the wild...

[scinkk]

I hope you are planning test the mountains.cpt in Nepal 

I will test it too, so these are beta versions  

And there is fr-fr.topographic-map.com theme, same color palete and the same altitude steps, if someone finds it useful

[gynta]

Update for my Austrian alp files. -> here
' think it works now for my own purpose.

[Christian]

Not bad!