Changelog
What changed in TopoLines, release by release. Open the editor to try the latest.
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Lidar for the Alps and beyond
HD exports now trace from national lidar terrain models in five more countries, picked automatically for your zone.
New
- England: Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DTM, 5 m. Learn more →
- Austria: BEV airborne-laser DTM, 5 m. Learn more →
- Switzerland: swisstopo swissALTI3D, 5 m. Learn more →
- Italy: INGV TINITALY, 10 m — Sicily and Sardinia included. Learn more →
- Germany: Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia DGM1, 5 m — more states to follow. Learn more →
Improved
- Large zones stay on the national model at a coarser grid (10–30 m) instead of dropping to the worldwide source. Learn more →
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Two readings of one terrain
Points joins contour lines as a second way to draw the same elevation data, and contour maps pick up the conventions of a printed topo sheet.
New
- Points render mode: the terrain as a field of dots, squares or crosses whose density and size follow the height. Same data as the contours, one switch. Learn more →
- Points controls: density, shape, min/max size, and placement from an ordered halftone grid to a hand-stippled scatter. Learn more →
- Scale bar, north arrow and legend, drawn in a margin band below the map on PNG and SVG exports. Learn more →
- Auxiliary contours: dashed half-interval lines on plateaus and terraces the standard interval would leave blank. Learn more →
- Depression contours: closed rings around a pit are marked with inward-pointing hachures. Learn more →
- Minimum contour length filter to clear tiny loops left by elevation noise. Learn more →
- Two Imhof-style hypsometric gradient presets (Pro).
- Contour lines now break under their elevation labels.
- Docs and this changelog. Learn more →
- Full story: TopoLines 2.0, two readings of one terrain. Learn more →
- A guided tour in chapters — Basics, Go further, What's new — and small New tags on the new controls that disappear once you've used them.
Improved
- A redesigned website in a flat, square style: animated terrain heroes on the Lines and Points pages, and new layouts for pricing, the city maps and the blog.
- A new basemap drawn for contour work, in light and dark: forests, meadows, farmland, sand, rock and ice in distinct colours, soft relief shading, quiet grey roads, and peaks, passes, huts, viewpoints, lifts and airports marked with standard map symbols.
- Points exports keep the density you see in the preview at every size, from the free PNG to PNG High.
- Scale bar, north arrow and legend are marked Pro in the editor, like every other paid option.
- The Figma plugin now draws auxiliary contours and depression hachures. Points is not available in the plugin yet.
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Steadier under load
Improved
- When many maps are traced at once, new requests wait in a short queue with a countdown instead of failing.
- The default contour colour is white, so a fresh trace reads on the dark basemap.
Fixed
- A clear message when an export needs more credits than the account has.
- More reliable sign-in and elevation downloads on slow networks.
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September: GIS & CAD exports, better elevation data
The biggest batch of the year, recapped in the September blog post.
New
- DXF export for CAD, laser cutting and CNC, and GeoJSON export for GIS with a choice of output coordinate system. Learn more →
- GEDTM30 bare-earth elevation worldwide, plus national 5–10 m data for France, the United States and Spain on paid exports. Learn more →
- Upload your own GeoTIFF elevation model (Pro). Learn more →
- Map info panel: source, coordinate system, scale and area of the current zone.
- Full recap: What's new — September 2026. Learn more →
Improved
- A flatter, sharper editor with a dark basemap by default and a search mode selector.
- Restyling a zone or coming back to it is close to instant thanks to trace caching.
Earlier releases are summarised on the blog.