May 28, 2023
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I have – after many years – made an update to the generalized map rendering demonstration on maps.imagico.de. Since i have first shown this demo i made several improvements to the underlying generalization processes, some of which i have discussed … Continue reading
July 1, 2020
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The State of the Map conference of 2020 has recently published two logo designs for T-shirts and stickers and i want to have a few comments on cartography and design of those here. Although i don’t know when these designs … Continue reading
March 20, 2018
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Tomorrow once again the annual FOSSGIS conference starts – this year in Bonn. At the moment it looks like it is going to be pretty damn cold… I am going to present a talk on Thursday afternoon about design oriented … Continue reading
November 22, 2016
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At the recent Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe i made some progress on a project i had been contemplating for quite some time and with further work in the last weeks first results can now be presented. The main motivation for … Continue reading
November 21, 2015
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Relief rendering is one of the key elements of my maps and the generalized shading used is a fairly unique feature among digital maps available today. I developed some improvements in this field i want to introduce here. Shaded relief … Continue reading
July 19, 2015
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A map update has been put up on maps.imagico.de with an additional zoom level (zoom 7) for all map layers in mercator projection. In addition you can now activate an overlay with national boundaries and corresponding labels. Technically this is … 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
March 2, 2015
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I just updated renderings of the Severnaya Zemlya map with a number of changes: Relief data is now using shape-from-shading techniques on the whole map area to provide additional relief details. Quality of this is somewhat variable since availability of … Continue reading
February 3, 2015
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Some time ago i wrote about use of patterns in map rendering and introduced a tool to generate non-regular periodic patterns. This however was all about generic patterns, that is patterns that are designed once and then used as a … Continue reading