About Topo Prints
We draw contour maps of places you pick and print them.
What we make
A contour line joins points of equal height. We trace those lines from public elevation data for the area you choose, then print the result. There are no labels unless you add them, and roads and trails are optional.
How it differs
Measured data
Every line comes from elevation measurements. Nothing is drawn by hand.
US and European places
Anywhere in the US, including Alaska and Hawaii. In Europe: the EU, Switzerland, Norway and the UK.
Your framing
You set the place, the area and the detail. The print is made when you order it.
Data & materials
Elevation comes from Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data, which combine USGS 3DEP (United States), SRTM and GMTED2010 (worldwide), EU-DEM (Europe), national lidar models in several countries and ETOPO1 (sea floor). Detail depends on the region and on the size of the area. Our software traces the contours and renders them as vector art.
Fine art prints are giclée printed with archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm, 100% cotton rag paper. Framed prints use a solid wood frame with shatter-resistant acrylic glazing.
Prints are made and shipped by Prodigi, a print-on-demand lab with sites in the US, UK, Europe and Australia.
Data Credits
Topo Prints is built on open data.
Elevation: Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data, created by Mapzen. Terrain Tiles combines the following sources, credited as their licenses require:
- ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736;
- Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017;
- Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich;
- Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada;
- Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers;
- Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;
- Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016;
- New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved);
- Norway terrain data © Kartverket;
- United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved;
- United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
In Europe, elevation is mostly EU-DEM and SRTM (about 30 m detail), with finer national models in Austria, Norway and the UK, and ArcticDEM in the far north.
Roads, trails and water: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation, available under the Open Database License (ODbL), via Overture Maps releases. Outside our coverage, roads and trails use OpenStreetMap data directly and water isn't drawn yet.
Place search: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim.
Map picker basemap: © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO.
Topo Prints is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these organizations.
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