Scree Painter
Scree Painter is a cartography app for creating scree patterns and gully lines used in Swiss-style topographic maps of mountainous terrain.
What is Scree Painter?
Scree Painter is a graphics and cartography app for generating scree patterns in topographic maps. It helps map makers fill polygons with scree stones and add gully lines for Swiss-style representation of mountainous areas. The app is designed for cartographers, GIS users, and terrain-mapping workflows where rocky slopes need consistent, editable symbolization. Users can import source data, adjust stone size, spread, density, shape, and gully settings, then export the resulting scree graphics for use in map production. It also supports saving and loading settings files and includes batch processing for automated generation across multiple map sheets. Scree Painter is distributed as free open-source software by Bernhard Jenny and is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Key features
- Generate scree patterns inside map polygons
- Adjust stone size, spread, density, and shape
- Create and edit gully line settings for mountain mapping
- Import input data sets for scree generation
- Export scree graphics for map production workflows
- Save and load parameter settings files
- Run batch processing from the console for repeated jobs
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Scree Painter is a legitimate desktop mapping tool for cartographic work. Its normal use centers on opening project data and exporting graphics, which is expected for this type of app. If you no longer create terrain or topographic maps, removing it should mainly affect your ability to open the app and continue those scree-generation workflows. Keep any project files or exported graphics you still need before uninstalling.
Recommendation: Keep Scree Painter if you use it for terrain or topographic map production. If you no longer need its scree-generation tools, you can remove the app and keep your project data or exports separately.
Common paths
/Applications/Scree Painter.app
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