September 30, 2014
by chris
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Over the last years i have made available quite a number of interactive maps. I have now put together a new site – maps.imagico.de – where you can view all those maps together in what i hope is a well … Continue reading
September 29, 2014
by chris
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Meanwhile more than a year ago i imported extensive data in OpenStreetMap for Antarctica much of which is showing the delineation of ice and ice free areas. Still none of the widely used OpenStreetMap based maps is showing this data. … Continue reading
September 19, 2014
by chris
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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
September 16, 2014
by chris
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Before the start of the age of digital maps almost every kind of area distinctly displayed in a map was shown by some sort of pattern. Printing techniques used for maps were fairly high resolution but often limited to black … Continue reading
September 3, 2014
by chris
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The well known Mercator projection ubiquitous in maps on the internet has one important property – it features a strongly varying scale across the area it is used for. This is why Greenland appears to be larger on the map … Continue reading
September 1, 2014
by chris
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While summer is coming to an end here in the north light is coming back to Antarctica these days. Currently we are approaching the maximum sea ice extent until the raising sun will start melting the ice in October. Here … Continue reading