TIANDITU (Map World) is the public version of National Platform for Common Geospatial Information Service, and the terrain service is an important channel for users on the platform.With the here development of TIANDITU, topographical hill shading map production for providing and updating global terrain map on line becomes necessary for the characters of strong intuition, three-dimensional sense and aesthetic effect.As such, the terrain service of TIANDITU focuses on displaying the different scales of topographical data globally.
And this paper mainly aims to research the method of topographical hill shading map production globally using DEM (Digital Elevation read more Model) data between the displaying scales about 1 : 140,000,000 to 1 : 4,000,000, corresponded the display level from 2 to 7 on TIANDITU website.