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Originally Posted by waldronate
If you're interested in how terrain affects distribution, then you're probably much more likely to get use out of a map that shows altitude (and perhaps temperature and/or rainfall) as color or that has significant distortion of altitude. As I've mentioned in other places, dime-store or thrift-store globes are pretty cheap and most of the basic models from Replogle have terrain molded in already. You can paint them or add an overlay layer with just terrain to get rid of the distracting human things like country boundaries and names. Or you can go with a digital globe like the basic Cesium - WebGL Virtual Globe and Map Engine model.I especially liked the vendian site, it has great source maps!
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