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by mparr4 5y ago
I have not. If there's a market for it, I'd do it, but I would guess there isn't. Might be a cool experiment to try for a map. If nothing else, it sounds fun.
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by mparr4 5y ago
Thanks! Yea, I think we are as close as wall art can get to a high quality screen - we optimize for contrast on the print. And while unlike a screen you need to provide light for a print, the effect of the light on the print is pretty engag
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by mparr4 5y ago
I plan to write another post on that with some images to show the steps, but the process differs a bit between our black+white and our satellite+hillshade images. For the black and white, we pull in the relevant elevation models, merging va
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by mparr4 5y ago
Nope. We are friends from high school. He found PGs essays in 2009 and we started our first company together in 2010.
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by mparr4 5y ago
Ramble Maps co-owner here. Happy to answer any questions about our process or our maps. Co-owner and I are long-time HNers. Psyched to be on the front page!
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Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps(ramblemaps.com)
120 points by mparr4 5y ago|60 comments
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Lidar Map Art Printed on Metal(ramblemaps.com)
3 points by mparr4 5y ago|0 comments
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by mparr4 5y ago
A fellow HNer and I just yesterday released some maps where we take aerial and/or satellite imagery and combine it with hillshade to create high resolution map art. The website is our work as well. Would love feedback from the HN crowd
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Show HN: Aerial Imagery and Hillshade Map Art of America's National Parks(ramblemaps.com)
2 points by mparr4 5y ago|1 comments
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Turning High Resolution Data into Wall Art(sevendaysvt.com)
3 points by mparr4 6y ago|0 comments
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Meandering Mississippi River(ramblemaps.com)
1 points by mparr4 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are the handles of the best marketers on HN?
2 points by mparr4 6y ago|0 comments
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by mparr4 6y ago
Indeed. I don't understand how my car works, but I am able to use it to get around.
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by mparr4 6y ago
Nice. I've been to the Baker resort, but didn't venture into the backcountry. You gotta get on some volcanoes with the split next May! I'd have to agree about Shuksan, a real stunner of a mountain!
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by mparr4 6y ago
Ha. I'll see you up on Sunset Ridge! Very cool stuff. I'll give that paper a read.
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by mparr4 6y ago
Nice! Which ones? Adams and Shasta for me. Am hoping to get back to the PNW for volcano season next year to do some ski mountaineering. I love these mountains.
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by mparr4 6y ago
Not yet! I looked into Olympus Mons but couldn't find data at high enough resolution that I'd be happy printing at. Definitely interested in extra-terrestrial maps!
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by mparr4 6y ago
Thanks, glad you like them and I appreciate that very much!
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by mparr4 6y ago
We're just consumers of the land cover data for our Green Mountain Ski Map series. The details of how they generated the data are in this report: https://vcgi.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/portal-pages/VT-Lan... I&#
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by mparr4 6y ago
We are not, we've got a full-on shopify site that we put on a subdomain, update the cart via the storefront API, and our checkout link takes you to the shopify checkout. Headless, AFAIK, is a higher pricing tier. We're just sorta
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by mparr4 6y ago
You're absolutely correct. That's what I get for going off memory. Updating now.
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by mparr4 6y ago
We've talked about making maps for climbers, it's certainly something we'd like to do. The more we here from folks who'd like that sort of thing the higher up the priority stack it goes!
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by mparr4 6y ago
They are 2D prints that are printed on materials and using inks that give them quite a bit of dimensionality. The acrylic option even catches the light differently as you move around it, creating a pretty cool effect.
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by mparr4 6y ago
Thanks, Jeff. There's a weird trick that our brains play on us when the light comes from somewhere other than the north, the ridges and valleys look inverted. There's been some research on this and the consensus is that sunlight c
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by mparr4 6y ago
Yes, that would absolutely be the proper name. For us I think it was just a matter of familiarity, does the lay person know what a "relief" map is? It's more descriptive, but potentially at a cost of understanding.Though mayb
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by mparr4 6y ago
A kindred spirit! I also am a forager (from VT). The "National Map" has a lot of the available high resolution elevation data (derived from LiDAR), but not all of it. Much of this data is collected by the states, so often there is
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by mparr4 6y ago
Thanks, glad you like them. We're figuring that out right now. We've got a FB ad campaign going and have gotten a few sales, but this line just went live on Wednesday. Our original maps (released at the end of March) were all of V
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by mparr4 6y ago
A fellow HNer and I started making high resolution terrain maps using LiDAR data. We've got maps of the Cascades and my home state of Vermont. We're software guys. We've got a custom website but we're using Shopify for o
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Show HN: High Resolution Terrain Maps of Cascade Volcanoes(ramblemaps.com)
48 points by mparr4 6y ago|40 comments
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by mparr4 6y ago
A partner and I started making high resolution terrain maps: https://ramblemaps.com We started in my home state, but are about to push a Cascade Volcano line.

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