◈ The Archive · Earth  15 entries

Above
the line.

Mountains, trails, glaciers — measured from sea level up.

Tallest
14,505 ft
Dataset
USGS 3DEP
Resolution
10 m / 32 ft
Issue
04 · Spring

Every line in the Earth archive is extracted from USGS 3DEP at a fixed contour interval. No stylized data. No generated terrain. If a peak moves, so does the record.

◈ Glaciers & Ice · 0 entries

Terrain that moves,
at the speed you don't see.

Ice fields and glaciated peaks, traced while they still exist at this extent.

— Field note

The Cascades hold more ice than the rest of the lower 48.

Mount Rainier alone carries 26 named glaciers, mapped and remapped as they retreat.

— Routes & Trails · 2 entries

You know every meter.
Now wear it.

Iconic lines — the routes that carved a community around them.

What is topography?

The shape of the Earth,
recorded in lines.

Topography is the science of measuring and representing terrain in 3D on a flat surface. Contour lines connect points of the same elevation — each line a record of where the land rises or falls.

When the lines are close, the terrain is steep. When they spread apart, it gentles. Every design in the Earth archive starts with USGS 3DEP — the same data source used by geologists and cartographers.