On tablet (EFB), terrain height map layer needs a color key

There is no way to tell how high mountains are by using the terrain height map.

Add a color key

Also, when you click on a random spot it provides the gps coordinates only.
It should also provide the elevation at that point.

Bonus: Automatically mark and label the highest points of each peak on the map.

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Amended title to reflect the wish relates to the EFB, to help with searches.

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In an effort to crowdsource some information:

It is hard to see but there are (at least) four different shades here, not just two (I almost didn’t catch it myself, I only saw it when I walked back into the room and saw the monitor from an angle)

zooming around in SLEW mode a bit I was able to confirm that these are 500 foot topo lines or 1000 foot if you ignore those very subtle shades. I was surprised that the more orange shade was higher up but it also seems to be the same shade lower down.

At lower altitude I started getting less consistent results:

Could be some artifacting/loading issues maybe?

I got some more cases here were different color bands were at very close to the same altitudes (within 100s of feet).

At some point I started seeing more visible color banding every 100’ feet.

And then skipping to the coast, the color banding is very confusing in places. 100-200’ here (hex 427339) is hard to tell apart from 300-400’ (hex 427432)

Hopefully that helps a little bit.