Use with AI Assistants

Every setting of Terrain Viewer lives in its URL, so an assistant can answer "show me the slope around Mont Blanc in 3D" with a link that opens exactly that. Two things teach it how.

The Terrain Viewer skill

A skill is a small instruction file an agent loads when a request matches it. The terrain-viewer skill tells the agent how to pick the camera, the view mode, the visualization and the terrain source, how to open a DEM file or tile URL the user shares, and which pages hold the full reference. It lives in the repository at skills/terrain-viewer/SKILL.md.

Install it for most agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and others) with skills.sh:

npx skills add Iconem/terrain-viewer

Or by hand:

• Claude Code: copy the skills/terrain-viewer folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (for every project) or .claude/skills/ (for one).
• Claude apps: zip the terrain-viewer folder and upload it under Settings, Capabilities, Skills.

Then ask in plain words, for example:

• "Show me the terrain around the Matterhorn with slope, in 3D."
• "Open this DEM in a browser: https://example.com/dem.tif"
• "Compare the IGN LiDAR nDSM with the default terrain over Paris."
• "Give me a link to spot old earthworks near Stonehenge."

llms.txt, for any assistant

Assistants that read the web, ChatGPT search included, look for /llms.txt at the site root. Ours explains how to build a link, with examples, and lists every documentation page. The complete parameter list is the URL API page and its machine-readable OpenAPI description.