Explore Mount Vesuvius

Credits

Interactive model and cartography

Mr Lane, 2026.

Terrain data

TINITALY 1.1, © INGV, CC BY 4.0. Tarquini, S., Isola, I., Favalli, M., Battistini, A. & Dotta, G. (2023), TINITALY, a digital elevation model of Italy with a 10 metres cell size (Version 1.1). DOI: 10.13127/tinitaly/1.1. Source.

Land-cover data

CORINE Land Cover 2018, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service / ISPRA. Continuous and discontinuous urban fabric are shown as built-up areas.

Settlement locations

Settlement point locations are based on GeoNames data and are used as pupil-friendly click targets.

Photography

Vesuvius from Naples: Purnawibawa, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Settlement cards can also load the lead image from the linked Wikipedia article (hosted on Wikimedia Commons) when an internet connection is available.

Software

Created with QGIS and the Qgis2threejs plugin; rendered with three.js.