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I did something in reverse. Our project was to maintain about 200 miles of a straight road in a diagonal direction on north-uo map, with another 90 miles road c
by davchana 4y ago
I did something in reverse. Our project was to maintain about 200 miles of a straight road in a diagonal direction on north-uo map, with another 90 miles road cutting it through making it a lop sided X.
I screenshotted Google Maps satellite view at certain height. It were about 30 sgots wide & 50 shots tall. Then cropped out the rectangle from shot with no distance scale, or search box. Then joined everything in Photoshop by hand. Then printed it as one gigantic page pdf. Then printed it on A3 pages as tiles with 1 inch overlap. Portrait wise 5 pages wide & 4 tall. Then trimmed every sheet on right & bottom except the last sheet on left & bottom. Then pasted them with glue. Cello tape on the back. Then everything goes on the wall. Then other people could use pushpins & stuff to mark the progress & program.
- lisper 4y agoPeople forget that cut-and-paste used to be literally cut and paste.
- RheingoldRiver 4y agoIncredibly trivial example but, I did this for baseball score cards as a kid. My dad had internet at work but we didn't at home, so he printed some baseball score cards for me at work, and brought them home so I could pick one. But I wasn't happy with any particular one of them, so I went to our local copy shop and sat there for a couple hours happily cutting and gluing together the elements from all of them that I wanted to create the ultimate baseball score card.
- Oxidation 4y agoInkAtlas does this for OSM tiles. I've used it a bit, but never needed a map large enough to use the paid option.
- psychphysic 4y agoWe did this so much. Nothing quite as impressive as your monster map! Need to know the area of that road? Cut it out and weight it. Divide it by the paper weight (e.g. 80gsm or more accurately weight a few pages and measure areas to get an average).