Just signed up, will report back. Why is this awesome to me?
I have had a passion for GIS as a hobby my whole life, but neer anything deep... until recently I have been doing a lot of art, and I want to make GIS Map art.
I have been using a number of various tools and grabbing open data from places like OpenTopography, USGS, municipality resources, etc.
Further, I love GIS based data science, and especially how informationally dense maps and GIS can be. They are wonderful. (think of how informative looking at a full 3d model of an games to see all the details of a level, objectives, risks, resources. GIS/Mapping is intrinsic to communicating the world around you.
So - I have been looking for the right tool(s) to use - and devour stuff like this.
Looking forward to coming back here with a review after I dive into this for a minute.
The community maps are freaking beautiful. I am sad I hadnt found you earlier!
Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such as the global submarine cable map:
https://app.atlas.co/projects/ft2YpKbX2NgOZueSPSTa?loc=16.38...
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Your activate email link takes you back to the same page: https://i.imgur.com/0NKEeXG.png rather than logging you in.
Adblocker prevents it from loading (ublock origin) - so have to white list it.
Please partner with https://opentopography.org/about/partner
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I'd love to be able to duplicate a community map into my workspace and then do work on them - Maybe you can ask people when they make a "community map" if they can license it with "credit creator" appropriate license type?
For example - the ecological California map in hexagons is wonderful, and I want to duplicate it, and export it and print the hex version of California out with the topological height map applied to it...
https://i.imgur.com/YFXkgQh.png
https://app.atlas.co/projects/RHOMLpu0kDJLDsCNyLYI?loc=-122....