Elevation maps that look like the land they show

A green lowland reads as fertile, well-watered ground. That is right for the Lake Victoria basin and wrong for the plains around Lake Turkana, where the lowlands are sand, rock and thin shrubland. Atlases solve this with two sets of height colours, one for humid country and one for dry country. OrionAI now does the same: when it draws an elevation map, it looks at the land cover of the area (ESA WorldCover) and picks tan lowlands where the land has almost no trees or crops, or much bare ground, and green lowlands elsewhere. It tells you which it chose and why.

You can change your mind afterwards. Select an elevation map in Map Studio and open its style to find the new Terrain panel. Switch the colours, turn smooth colour into height bands at round metres (500, 1,000, 1,500 m...), or make the shaded relief stronger or softer, and redraw. Orion redraws the map from its own heights, so the area and its outline stay exactly as they were, and the key on the map and on the result card follows.