Dear members,

I have the to create a map of India which will be used as the study area map. Because this map will be part of my PhD I want to make it special. And what's more special than the famous Imhof style map.
My study area is the country of India. I downloaded the SRTM region of India and I created a "traditional" hillshade (as John Nelson likes to call it) based on the SRTM.
The problem is that the resulting hillshade seems like salt & pepper (img_1) while I want to achieve something like this (img_2).
What I have tried so far is to upscale the SRTM to 100m but I'm guessing that's not enough.
Any suggestion on how I can make the hillshade to look more like the img_2?

Best wishes,

Nikolas


traditional_mine.png img_1
traditional_nice.png img_2