[OSM-dev] Shaded relief in OSM

Artem Pavlenko artem.mapnik at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 5 16:47:09 GMT 2007


On 5 Dec 2007, at 15:53, Milo van der Linden wrote:

> This cartographer (BSc degree) thinks that it might well serve in  
> creating an even better looking map. Indeed new problems appear  
> when overlaying roads, text and so on.
>
> Regarding the public domain. I have images in ecw and tiff  
> available (that are well over 250Mb)

I use two tiffs for east and west, both > 600MB and I still want some  
more pixels.

> for the whole earth that are really public domain, completely and  
> without restrictions. I would love to donate these to some  
> enthousiastic that is intending to get it into mapnik or OSM.
>

yes, please, I'd love to check them out.

Artem

> Artem Pavlenko schreef:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Jon Burgess pointed me to : http://www.shadedrelief.com/ and I
>> downloaded some data, warped into Mercator and rendered tiles with
>> Mapnik.
>> Here are results : http://mapnik.org/maps/natural_earth/
>> This is a very rough cut and I'm aware of some problems ..
>>
>> Should we be using this data (public domain AFAIK)  for mapnik layer
>> or on separate layer ? What do cartographers think?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Artem
>>
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