May 25, 2015
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Here is a particularly interesting spring Landsat image from the Arctic showing October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya. The area shown is located here: and shows two fairly spectactular phenomemena. The first is the streak of wind blown dust at the … Continue reading
May 21, 2015
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After introducing the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps i also produced a shading compensated version. Here are a few new 3d renderings created using that image. In contrast to my earlier views of the Alps these show more … Continue reading
May 18, 2015
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This image is based on a Landsat scene already two months old but none the less seems interesting enough to feature here. It shows the Bay of Whales at the Antarctic coast which is the southmost point of open ocean … Continue reading
May 12, 2015
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There are a number of new features and improvements in jsdotpattern – my tool for generating random patterns for maps. The most important one is you can now record processing steps and save and distribute them as links. Here are … Continue reading
May 11, 2015
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I am pleased to announce the relaunch OpenStreetMapData.com run by Jochen Topf and myself where you can download various useful datasets processed from OpenStreetMap data. OpenStreetMapData.com is already well known for providing a central download location for the OpenStreetMap coastline … Continue reading
May 9, 2015
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When you look at current automatically rendered digital maps one of the most peculiar things is that what cities and towns are shown on those maps at low zoom levels varies a lot. Here three examples from the lower Rhine … Continue reading