Nice.
An interesting map is an exaggerated-relief map of Europe as far east as Moscow, with marks for all known battles. Over the centuries, they were mostly in the same places. It gives you a sense of how geography affects politics.
Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data
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Re: Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data
#12NYC performed a LIDAR scan of NYC in conjunction with CUNY a few years ago so that they could build a 'solar map' to help estimate how much solar capacity could be installed on a building. Anyone know where to grab the LIDAR scan data from?
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#13How about printing a landscape from a map/contour lines? Do you think it is possible for example from OSM data? (That London looks totally cool.)
OSM is just vectors, there aren't a lot of limits on what the data can be used for. This was recently posted to /r/openstreetmap: https://touch-mapper.org/ I really don't have a sense of how useful such a map would be, but it's exactly a 3d extrusion of OSM data.
This is very interesting!
I don't really have anyone close that is visually impaired but this would be super cool to have at 3D printing events and such. Very neat idea.
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#14It's good to see LIDAR in the news!
I work at Advanced Scientific Concepts (FPGA engineer), our flash LIDAR is 128x128, works out to several kilometers, and will be on the OSIRIS-Rex project to scoop some stuff up from an asteroid and return it to Earth - it's pretty wild.
We are developing a system for topology mapping like this specifically.
Check the mission out: http://www.asteroidmission.org/ and the company! http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/
If anybody is interested, send me a message.
Re: Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data
#15Awesome, is there any data like this for SF / bay area?
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#16Awesome, is there any data like this for SF / bay area?
There is, actually - the US has a (slightly worse) government data repository, but there's several LIDAR sets of the Bay Area, mostly from coastal surveys.
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#17That's really cool. Wish it was printed in colour :)
If LIDAR data isn't available, you can do pretty detailed 3D mapping with a regular camera and UAV, using photogrammetry/structure from motion. A Phantom or almost anything that flies with a reasonable camera will do. Of course the better camera you use, the better the results. Flight restrictions over populated areas apply, check your local legislation :)
commercial solutions: https://pix4d.com/, http://www.agisoft.com/, http://www.dronedeploy.com
open source: https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap
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#18Really cool. From the description it sounds like you just made one for yourself. I would suggest you try selling these for $500 - $2000 each. You put a lot of work into it and I think that as art these would be command some money in the market.
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#20NYC performed a LIDAR scan of NYC in conjunction with CUNY a few years ago so that they could build a 'solar map' to help estimate how much solar capacity could be installed on a building. Anyone know where to grab the LIDAR scan data from?
If you can't find it, you may be able to file a FOIA request for it.