Feature Overview

The sidebar is organized into a few groups. This page is a map of what each does — see the linked pages for detail.

The full sidebar, with the in-app guided tour's "The Control Panel" step spotlighting it

Full sidebar, mid guided-tour — see the Walkthrough (docs screenshots) or take it yourself in-app ↗ (interactive — same as Settings → Take the Tour)

General Settings

View Mode: 2D, 3D (terrain exaggeration + tilt), or Globe projection
Split Mode: Off, Overlay (blended A/B), or Side (independent panes, up to an 8-view grid) — see Basemaps & Historical Imagery for the grid picker
Project: import/export a full app-state JSON, or load a bundled preset via ?project=

Globe projection, with LRM and Sky-View Factor's Relief Visualization controls open

View Mode: Globe — LRM + Sky-View Factor, world view

Side-by-side Split Mode comparing two terrain sources with the same Hillshade + Elevation Hypso + Raster Basemap combo

Split Mode: Side — comparing two terrain sources, Combined Hillshade + Elevation Hypso — see Split & Compare Modes

Each toggles independently and stacks over the terrain/basemap — see Terrain Visualization Modes for the full list:

Contours + Geo Grid
Hillshade
Raster Basemap
Elevation Hypso (hypsometric tint)
Relief Visualization (LRM, Sky-View Factor, Openness, Local Dominance)
Terrain Analysis (Slope, Aspect, Curvature, TRI, TPI, Roughness, Blobness, Shape Index, Eigen Ratio, Orientation)
Lighting Effects (Matcap, Phong)
Background + Fog/Sky

Save the current viewport and every visualization setting as a named, thumbnailed bookmark — see Bookmarks.

Terrain: Mapterhorn, Mapbox, MapTiler, AWS Elevation Tiles, or a custom Terrarium/Terrain-RGB/COG source — see Bring Your Own Data
Basemap: satellite/hybrid basemaps, plus the combined Historical Imagery entry (Wayback, HLS, Google Earth Historical, Planet) — see Basemaps & Historical Imagery