Turning satellite imagery into wall art • Hacker News Board

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by KindOne » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 3:19 AM UTC

jubjubbird wrote: post #12

If you just want some nice (public domain) art to hang on your wall: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/earth-art

Here is a direct link if you want to search stuff on a map.

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

The datasets you pick from can be a bit confusing unless you click the (!) icon next to the names to figure out what they are.

I have mostly used it for looking at old reconnaissance satellite images from the 70's and 80's. I posted some directions here and a image from a satellite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006367

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by changoplatanero » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 4:59 AM UTC

BurningFrog wrote: post #20

changoplatanero wrote: post #19

When I was a google intern in 2013 I downloaded the raw google maps satellite images for all of the United States. I stitched it together into one giant high resolution image. The plan was to get it printed big enough to cover an entire wall. That ended up being too expensive though and nothing ever happened.

Too expensive for you or for Google?

For me!

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by 4g » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 6:15 AM UTC

I stumbled across a similar project that uses digital elevation maps and lidar data to add 3d effect to old maps, the results are quite interesting,

https://twitter.com/geo_spatialist There is a video detailing the process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkaCAv2TSk

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by notreallyhere00 » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 6:45 AM UTC

Love it but they don’t have any of my fav areas and while I’ll submit a request - anyone know any similar websites that I can look at?

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by yosito » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:06 AM UTC

4g wrote: post #23

I stumbled across a similar project that uses digital elevation maps and lidar data to add 3d effect to old maps, the results are quite interesting, https://twitter.com/geo_spatialist There is a video detailing the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkaCAv2TSk

Geospatialist is amazing! I'm waiting for more maps of Europe. I'm particularly interested in a map of the old Austro Hungarian empire because of my family heritage. I wish custom orders were accepted.

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by abainbridge » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:59 AM UTC

Nice. Is anyone doing the same but with more focus on Europe? Lake Geneva or Lake Garda with the surrounding mountains would make a nice scene.

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by oleh » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

It would be even more awesome if a terrain elevation map was milled into the wood before painting/printing! Definitely would buy, especially from Big Island or Kaua’i! :-)

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by mdp2021 » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 9:38 AM UTC

Reminder that also the amazing "Tilt45" imagery exists:

https://jsfiddle.net/3tuprz7n/

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by cycomanic » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

For the lucky guys/gals from NZ, there are high quality cloud free arial images freely available from linz. In particular check out basemaps.linz.govt.nz/

The images are already blended so much of the work is done.

Re: Turning satellite imagery into wall art

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Post by madaxe_again » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

porphyra wrote: post #13

Blending the colors in Photoshop manually seems very tedious. The open source Enblend/Enfuse, which ships as part of the open source panorama stitching software Hugin, does it automatically and seamlessly. http://enblend.sourceforge.net/

To be honest, PS’s inbuilt merge and stitch is pretty damn good - I use it on astrophotography outputs where I need to match subtly different processes between subframes of a mosaic. If there are flaws, they’re not ones my eyes can see.