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How about printing a landscape from a map/contour lines? Do you think it is possible for example from OSM data? (That London looks totally cool.)

• andrewgodwin 10y ago
  As long as you can convert the data into a height field it's possible. I reckon you could do contours with interpolation.
• buckhx 10y ago
  In college my group used topo maps and a laser cutter to construct a map of Colorado. The burned edges had a really nice effect http://www.instructables.com/id/TwitMap-Topographical-Colorado-Twitter-Map/ http://www.instructables.com/id/TwitMap-Topographical-Colora...
• maxerickson 10y ago
  OSM is just vectors, there aren't a lot of limits on what the data can be used for. This was recently posted to /r/openstreetmap: https://touch-mapper.org/ https://touch-mapper.org/ I really don't have a sense of how useful such a map would be, but it's exactly a 3d extrusion of OSM data.
  • saganus 10y ago
    This is very interesting! I don't really have anyone close that is visually impaired but this would be super cool to have at 3D printing events and such. Very neat idea.
• dougmccune 10y ago
  I'll plug an open source lib I wrote called shp2stl that converts shapefiles into 3D models suitable for printing. http://dougmccune.com/blog/2014/12/30/using-shp2stl-to-convert-maps-to-3d-models/ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2014/12/30/using-shp2stl-to-conve...
• thatcherc 10y ago
  It's not exactly contour lines, but I made a site [0] that creates STL files from a global digital elevation model. You can select a region of the Earth and get a 3D printable file of its terrain. Might be close to what you're looking for! [0] - http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/ http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/