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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

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How 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.)

As long as you can convert the data into a height field it's possible. I reckon you could do contours with interpolation.

Re: Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data

#7

How 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.)

In college my group used topo maps and a laser cutter to construct a map of Colorado. The burned edges had a really nice effect http://www.instructables.com/id/TwitMap-Topographical-Colora...

Re: Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data

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How 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.

Re: Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data

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Very interesting project and glad to see the documentation and results! Had me thinking this might be a fun long-term art project, where a city like this could be given color details by hand using various inks and/or paints. Just a thought inspired by the clever undertaking seen here.
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