1) These are fantastic.
2) Surely this is breaking the Google Maps licence for use of their map tiles? Switch to OpenStreetMap!
Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
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#72This is an amazing tool, but unfortunately incredibly uninteresting because I live in the suburbs!
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#73I wanted to make a purchase, but your web site is turning into a perfect infinite loop to PayPal. It just keeps trying to forward me to PayPal, abort, retry..abort..retry
Fix your code and you get the money?
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#74Wow, that is really cool. If I could come with a small feature request, I'd love to see support for open street maps as well. At least for the area around my house OSM has much more detailed maps. Google maps for example doesn't have the road that leads up to my apartment building, since you can't drive on it, while OSM does.
We're actively working on an OSM render path. Coming soon!!
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That is amazing. Look at DC, which is the exact same thing - but with masonic symbolism rather than mayan symbolism.
Notice you do not link to a map. Because this is total bullshit. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C._street_design_...
Sorry, but the way they refute is is to say "the street does not extend to a point" yet you can draw the symbol on the streets and see that the design is perfectly implied.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+dc&hl=en&ll...
I also assume you're not a Mason, thus you think that everything is simply coincidence.
Sorry - but there are very deliberate decisions, particularly with respect to design, that are, in fact, Masonic, all over DC.
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Bizarro gabesmed here -- my noprocrast settings got the better of me! Yup, contact us at team@woodcutmaps.com and we can pretty much do any image. Our processing settings are tuned specifically for maps, but could be applied to any image. Would be curious to see how a photo would come out.
How about a circuit board layout diagram? It's been a long-standing tradition at my work to etch designs onto PCBs as gifts for employees who are leaving. These are beautiful, and would really raise the bar.
Can I PLEASE see some pics of this, this sounds awesome.
In 1998, while at Intel, I did the Decepticon logo in circuitry for the album art for my friends CD.
I'd love to see what you did.
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Offtopic: Why do you use two accounts on HN, _gabesmed & gabesmed?
No-procast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3763855 Edit: Longer version: It is because of his noprocast setting.
I was impossibly confused until I realized you meant to write "noprocrast". As in "no procrastination".
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Whats the max size? What if I want a rooms floor done like this?
Then I would personally salute you. Still trying to convince the fiancee to do our living room as a woodcut floor :)
I'd like to try some Escher patterns.
I have been drawing some based on some of his drawings in AutoCad - to then color in illustrator.
I drew this the other day - and it would be great to do a pattern like this in wood for an entryway:
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Heya, I'm the developer behind Woodcut Maps! The site is built on python/django and hosted on AWS. Most of the interesting work happens in python with PIL, numpy and scipy. We download maps tiles (Google for now, working on an OSM render path), and split them into channels for landscape, water, roads and parks. Then we apply several steps of scipy's image morphology filters to get the masks ready for laser cutting an…
Strictly for the sake of curiosity, how large of a custom piece could you produce with and without seams (e.g. another commenter asked about creating a custom floor)?
We'd love to make a custom floor! We can do any size piece as long as it's tiled by panels. It'd be cheaper to use the standard sizes (so the largest panel to tile would be 16x20) as it helps us conserve material. But we can conceivably make single maps or panels as large as 18x32, which is the size of our laser-cutter.
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#80Beautiful work! What kind of finish is used to seal and protect the final piece?