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3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Because for a layperson, an actual 3D map is much easier (and prettier) to read than a topo line map.

Literally none of these are "actual 3D maps," they are topo maps. The only additional information they provide is the 3D extension of objects that were already discoverable in 2D. "Can this map help me find the town hall of Whittier, Alaska?" If not, it isn't a 3D map.

> Can this map help me find the town hall of Whittier, Alaska?

For those who (like me) who didn't get the reference and were curious about this - the town appears to be mainly consolidated into a single 14-story building [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begich_Towers

Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Might be cool, won't know, because of that full page "we are tracking you, do you consent, or do you want to go through a click adventure that'll probably take half an hour before we pretend that analytics and tracking cookies are essential site functionality and we refuse to give you the option to turn those off" notice. If you can't write your site code to do the right thing when DNT is turned on and without needin…

Or just don’t use it? These sorts of comments always ignore the bidirectional relationship between websites and web users. They don’t owe you anything, you’re just another customer with a choice to make.

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Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Or just don’t use it? These sorts of comments always ignore the bidirectional relationship between websites and web users. They don’t owe you anything, you’re just another customer with a choice to make.

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'hacker' in the original sense, not in the "i steal your passwords and money" sense.

Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Or just don’t use it? These sorts of comments always ignore the bidirectional relationship between websites and web users. They don’t owe you anything, you’re just another customer with a choice to make.

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Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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'hacker' in the original sense, not in the "i steal your passwords and money" sense.

im talking about making an (FOSS) alternative front end, to an ostensibly free service, that fixes the bugs for them. what the fuck are you on about?

Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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'hacker' in the original sense, not in the "i steal your passwords and money" sense.

im talking about making an (FOSS) alternative front end, to an ostensibly free service, that fixes the bugs for them. what the fuck are you on about?

I think it's you who needs an attitude adjustment.

Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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And the practical application of data like these: https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html

This site is quintessential Czech humor, similar in spirit to recent Kralovec annexation and Jara Cimrman. Thank you for linking it here.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WarWithThe... is another example of Czech humor. (From the author who brought you Robots.)

Re: 3D map of the Czech Republic, made from 12.5cm/px imagery (2017)

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Awesome. Breathtaking. But the imagery isn't from satellite data, is it? Must be from airplanes.

Indeed, something like 25cm or better is typically shot from airplanes. I don't remember what the physical limit is for image quality given a reasonably sized spy satellite (iirc it's around the 20cm mark), but commercially at least, the high quality imagery is all airplanes. Governments often commission such planes to fly ~yearly at something like 10 cm, as well as commissioning height maps[1], but the very good stu…

> [1] For those that can read Dutch, how the Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland is made: https://www.ahn.nl/ahn-the-making-of

Google Translate handles it just fine. Interesting!

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