January 21, 2018
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Many on my readers probably have heard about the company Mapzen closing down. In that context the Mapzen CEO Randy Meech has published (or more precisely: re-published) a piece on volatileness and permanence in tech business which reminded me of … Continue reading
March 3, 2016
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After the Landsat mosaic of Scandinavia i also produced a shading compensated version of this image to use for creating new 3d views of the area. Here are a few examples from the coast of northern Norway produced based on … Continue reading
September 22, 2015
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Supplemental to the Svalbard mosaic here some 3d views of the area created using this and elevation data from the Norwegian Polar Institute (CC-BY-4.0 license). The NPI data is detailed but quite outdated in large parts – here a map … Continue reading
August 13, 2015
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I put up a number of new 3d views of the Alps on the services.imagico.de catalog that were – like the previous images – created based on the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps. In addition you can … Continue reading
June 20, 2015
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Digital elevation data is an important basis of map production and geodata processing these days. I have written about elevation data sources and use of such data previously on several occasions. SRTM data is the most widely used elevation data … Continue reading
May 21, 2015
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After introducing the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps i also produced a shading compensated version. Here are a few new 3d renderings created using that image. In contrast to my earlier views of the Alps these show more … Continue reading
January 20, 2015
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The Atlas Mountains views introduced in the previous post are my first use of the SRTM high resolution data in 3d rendering. Here a higher resolution crop for comparison (first is the 1 arc second data, second 3 arc seconds): … Continue reading
January 20, 2015
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I put up some new 3d views of the Atlas Mountains with winterly snow cover on the services.imagico.de catalog. The Atlas Mountains are the largest region in Africa with extensive seasonal snow cover. At the same time most rain in … Continue reading
September 19, 2014
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The Green Marble global color mosaic i introduced recently allows producing 3d views of areas where previously available image data was not suited for high quality images. Here are a number of perspectives i wanted to do for quite a … Continue reading
July 12, 2014
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After the general discussion of the boundaries between 2d maps and and 3d perspective views i set up a version of the Franz Josef Land map in orthographic 3d perspective for a more practical demonstration: Producing this kind of map … Continue reading
July 1, 2014
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Map design and Geo-Visualization is to a huge part about abstraction. To illustrate this here is an example from my standard demo map from the Western Alps and a 3D perspective view of the same area. These two illustrations make … Continue reading