This interactive world map shows you where mountains rise impressively above their surroundings, rather than just above sea level. [OC]

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1. [**Link to map**](https://peakjut.com/map)

   **This interactive world map reveals incredibly impressive mountains near you and worldwide**—huge mountain faces, sheer cliffs, deep canyons, and other awe-inspiring landforms that fly off the radar of traditional elevation maps.

   It achieves its magic through jut, a measure of a mountain’s rise above surroundings and visual impressiveness, considering both its base-to-peak height and steepness. More info can be found [here](https://peakjut.com/about).

   This map is a collaboration with Noah Lomas, who discovered how to render continuous jut maps. Rendering is done in Google Earth Engine using the 3DEP, CDEM, GLO-30, and MERIT elevation models.

   Excited to hear your comments and suggestions! Any interesting findings? 🙂

2. This seems fun!

   From a purely performance standpoint, the re-rendering or recalculating of the layers every time you click/pan/zoom (especially every time you click) is pretty frustrating. Is there any way around this? Perhaps with some form of caching?

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