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AWESOME!. Just signed up, will report back. Why is this awesome to me? I have had a passion for GIS as a hobby my whole life, but neer anything deep... until
by samstave 3y ago
AWESOME!.
Just signed up, will report back. Why is this awesome to me?
I have had a passion for GIS as a hobby my whole life, but neer anything deep... until recently I have been doing a lot of art, and I want to make GIS Map art.
I have been using a number of various tools and grabbing open data from places like OpenTopography, USGS, municipality resources, etc.
Further, I love GIS based data science, and especially how informationally dense maps and GIS can be. They are wonderful. (think of how informative looking at a full 3d model of an games to see all the details of a level, objectives, risks, resources. GIS/Mapping is intrinsic to communicating the world around you.
So - I have been looking for the right tool(s) to use - and devour stuff like this.
Looking forward to coming back here with a review after I dive into this for a minute.
The community maps are freaking beautiful. I am sad I hadnt found you earlier!
Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such as the global submarine cable map:
https://app.atlas.co/projects/ft2YpKbX2NgOZueSPSTa?loc=16.3863%2C24.2319%2C1.5756z https://app.atlas.co/projects/ft2YpKbX2NgOZueSPSTa?loc=16.38...
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Your activate email link takes you back to the same page: https://i.imgur.com/0NKEeXG.png https://i.imgur.com/0NKEeXG.png rather than logging you in.
Adblocker prevents it from loading (ublock origin) - so have to white list it.
Please partner with https://opentopography.org/about/partner https://opentopography.org/about/partner
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I'd love to be able to duplicate a community map into my workspace and then do work on them - Maybe you can ask people when they make a "community map" if they can license it with "credit creator" appropriate license type?
For example - the ecological California map in hexagons is wonderful, and I want to duplicate it, and export it and print the hex version of California out with the topological height map applied to it...
https://i.imgur.com/YFXkgQh.png https://i.imgur.com/YFXkgQh.png
https://app.atlas.co/projects/RHOMLpu0kDJLDsCNyLYI?loc=-122.0086%2C37.8606%2C8.2379z https://app.atlas.co/projects/RHOMLpu0kDJLDsCNyLYI?loc=-122....
- jamessb 3y ago> Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such as the global submarine cable map: Other submarine cable maps have been posted to HN before [1]. The one on https://www.submarinecablemap.com https://www.submarinecablemap.com is more interactive and provides more information that this map on Atlas. [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=submarine+cable+map https://hn.algolia.com/?q=submarine+cable+map
- samstave 3y agoYeah :-) Also why I mentioned it... What I noticed is the Infrastructure Tab, and reminded of how an infra map was pulled from some kids thesis because they felt it was a threat to have a map of communications infra in public hands.
- zyang 3y agoIf you are interested in making map art, there's a Figma plugin that can pull map data as vector: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072 https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072
- samstave 3y agoWonderful, thank you!
- ecommerceguy 3y ago>>So - I have been looking for the right tool(s) to use - and devour stuff like this. You can get the entire ArcGIS suite for $100/yr with the home license.