June 5, 2022
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This is part four of a four part series of blog posts on the depiction of trees in maps – see part 1 for a discussion of tree rendering in traditional maps and plans, part 2 for mapping of trees … Continue reading
June 1, 2022
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This is part two of a four part series of blog posts on the depiction of trees in maps – see part one for a discussion of tree rendering in traditional maps and plans. Tree mapping in OpenStreetMap In OpenStreetMap … Continue reading
May 30, 2022
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I have discussed depiction of forests and woods in maps on this blog in the past. Here i want to cover a related topic: The depiction of individual trees in maps – as well as bushes/shrubs, tree rows and hedges. … Continue reading
November 14, 2021
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There has been a period of very sunny weather recently in large parts of the eastern United States allowing for this view of Autumn colors in the Appalachian Mountains as recorded by Sentinel-3:
December 21, 2018
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This is a followup on my previous piece on differentiated rendering of woodland. Woodland is a fairly well defined part of vegetation to be rendered in maps. If you go beyond that things get more complicated. In OSM-Carto it has … Continue reading
May 21, 2018
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This post is in continuation of my attempts started at the end of last year with path and waterbody rendering to write a bit more about OpenStreetMap map design. What i here want to cover is differentiated rendering of woodlands. … Continue reading
January 27, 2018
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Over the last days i added a number of images to the OSM images for mapping produced from Sentinel-2 and Landsat data. There are three new images for the Antarctic: McMurdo Bay area This image covers the McMurdo Sound, McMurdo … Continue reading
April 22, 2017
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After the recent work on autumn color satellite image mosaics here for comparison also an image of autumn colors on the southern hemisphere. This shows the Andes Mountains in Patagonia, South America at the border between Chile and Argentina with … Continue reading
November 12, 2015
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As with previous Landsat mosaics i also produced a vegetation map for Greenland matching the image mosaic introduced recently. The map shows vegetation cover with a spatial resolution of 30m and distinguishes between woody and herbaceous vegetation although woody in … Continue reading
September 1, 2015
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Supplemental to the Landsat mosaic of Germany and the Alps you can now also get a vegetation map generated from the same source data. Like the Green Marble vegetation map this shows the fraction of vegetation cover differentiated by vegetation … Continue reading