 Later, Ibn Battuta (1304–1377) described a raised-relief map while visiting Gibraltar

In his 1665 paper for the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society", John Evelyn (1620–1706) believed that wax models imitating nature and bas relief maps were something entirely new from France.Some later scholars attributed the first raised-relief map to one Paul Dox, who represented the area of Kufstein in his raised-relief map of 1510.There are a number of ways to create a raised-relief map.