Terrain · Relief · Cartography
Elevated Terrain Maps · Est. 2026

Name a location. Get its real shape.

No drawing a box. No uploading files. No approximations. Type any place on Earth and download a print-ready model of its true terrain.

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Parameters
Z = 17.0mm (base 5.0 + relief 12.0)
5mm
12mm
Standard Free
Standard-resolution preview specimen. Africa terrain at smoothed detail.
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Full-resolution preview specimen. Africa terrain at sharp detail.
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Every place on Earth.
Global
Coverage
∞
Regions
3
File Formats
1m
Highest Resolution
Why It Exists
Why Alticarta?

Type a place name and you get its true administrative shape, the real coastline, the real border, filled with real elevation data. It sounds simple. Nothing else does it.

Map tools make you draw a box and hope it's close. AI tools generate a plausible guess that isn't actually the place. The professional GIS route works, if you want to wrangle shapefiles and elevation data yourself.

Alticarta is the one where you name the place and get the real thing. No rectangles. No approximations. No GIS.

Our Craft
Precision at Every Elevation
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The Real Boundary, Not a Box
Type "Iceland" and receive Iceland's precise shape. Every coastline faithfully rendered. No rectangles. No approximations.
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Mountains & Features
Individual summits, volcanoes, and dramatic geological features. Mt. Fuji, El Capitan, Vesuvius. A permanent record of the terrain you love, or the peak you've yet to climb.
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High-Resolution Elevation Data
1m USGS detail across the United States, 2m swissALTI3D throughout Switzerland, 30m global coverage everywhere else. Sourced from NASA, ESA, USGS, swisstopo, and open scientific archives. Every peak rendered at the finest fidelity available.
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CNC & Print Ready
Watertight, manifold mesh every time. Drop directly into Bambu Studio, VCarve, Fusion 360, or any CAM software without repair.
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Contour Lines
Raised contour lines rendered directly into the surface geometry. The classic topographic aesthetic translated into physical form.
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Water Body Recessing
Lakes, rivers, and coastal inlets recessed into the surface. The Great Lakes, Scottish lochs, and inland seas emerge with quiet drama.
Wood relief sculpture of the African continent, topographical detail, backlit on a wall above a console table. Aaron's personal piece, generated from elevation data, CNC-cut from poplar, stained walnut, finished by hand.

The tool I needed

I started making to clear my head, and it became the thing that does. Somewhere in there it pointed me at maps.

I've been lucky enough to stand in places most people only see in films. Mountains, coastlines, deserts, the kind of country that stays with you. I'm a husband and a dad now, and I don't get to those places the way I used to. But a relief map brings them back. Not a flat picture of a place. The place itself, shrunk down to something you can hold. That's why Alticarta builds real topography from real elevation data, and not a trace or an image.

I spent years overpaying for STL files that never matched what I was after, paying first and finding out after. Eventually I got tired enough to build the tool I wished existed. And because I know what it's like to buy blind, you see exactly what you're getting, free, before you pay a cent.

Start with Free. Type any place on Earth, no signup, no credit card.
Pricing
Simple. Transparent. No Hidden Fees.
Pay per piece. Or subscribe for the workflow.
Membership
Hobbyist
$18
USD · Per month
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  • 10 downloads each month
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$32
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  • 25 downloads each month
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$65
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  • 75 downloads each month
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Free
$0
Always free
  • Any region, mountain, or feature
  • Smoothed-detail STL output
  • No signup, no credit card
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Per Download
$9
USD · One file, full quality
  • Everything in Free
  • Sharp peaks · Full surface detail
  • Custom dimensions · All formats
  • Raised border frame · No watermark
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Licensing
Personal use across all plans. Each generated file may be commercially fabricated up to 100 units. For higher-volume commercial fabrication, an Extended Commercial License is available. Please get in touch.