Tag: postgis
Glacier Contours
I consider the USGS 7.5′ quads to be among the best topographic maps around. That said, working around their shortcomings is the primary cartographic motivation for Closed Contour. Right now I feel like I have a ways to go before I can claim that my maps are ‘better’ (how ever you define it) than the [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2010 under Closed Contour, Technique, cartography.
Tags: contours, glaciers, postgis, postgresql, sql
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Mapping Challenges
I started working on this project about 3 weeks ago in my spare time. The first few days I spent just trying to make some pretty pictures with some basic data, maybe a DEM, some contours, some summits, etc. Once I convinced myself that what I had in mind was possible I began to work [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2010 under Closed Contour.
Tags: amazon, cartography, cloudfront, ec2, eclipse, gdal, mapnik, postgis, postgres, s3
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