January 28, 2015
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The standard map style on openstreetmap.org now finally renders bare ground areas that are mapped as natural=bare_rock, natural=scree or natural=shingle. This has been a seriously missing feature in the standard OSM map for a long time – both bare_rock and … Continue reading
January 20, 2015
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The Atlas Mountains views introduced in the previous post are my first use of the SRTM high resolution data in 3d rendering. Here a higher resolution crop for comparison (first is the 1 arc second data, second 3 arc seconds): … Continue reading
January 20, 2015
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I put up some new 3d views of the Atlas Mountains with winterly snow cover on the services.imagico.de catalog. The Atlas Mountains are the largest region in Africa with extensive seasonal snow cover. At the same time most rain in … Continue reading
January 11, 2015
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More than a year ago i introduced an approach to process waterbody data for the purpose of generating a generalized worldwide river network. This method required quite a lot of ressources in processing so i did not reprocess it since … Continue reading
January 1, 2015
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Happy New Year to all readers. Here is a mosaic of Landsat images from mid-end December of Kamchatka. I have produced winter mosaics from the area before but Kamchatka always provides new interesting features. In contrast to the previous mosaic … Continue reading