MapKnitter can make maps from any image source(mapknitter.org)
mapknitter.org
MapKnitter can make maps from any image source
https://mapknitter.org/
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I wonder what the hosting costs of mapping is. The site says the average map has 24 cm/pixel resolution, assuming a 100 000 x 100 000 pixel average ‘knitted’ map that would be 10 gigapixels per map. With 100 000 maps that would be a petapixel of maps. If it’s losslessly compressed, which I doubt, that could be as much as 1.5 petabytes. Probably less, though.
This has the potential to be very impactful.
This is cool because there's already a lot of tools to do this for images from drone/satellite which are georeferenced.
This just gives you a nice interface so you can position/stretch the image on a 2D map even without that metadata. Seems to be a manual process.
This just gives you a nice interface so you can position/stretch the image on a 2D map even without that metadata. Seems to be a manual process.
Orthorectification was my second favourite geography “puzzle” in undergrad. I’m delighted to see some handy tooling to do it from the browser. It’s so empowering to be able to register public participation remote sensing data to a map frame.
Thought this was going to be a map of knit shops when I read the name. First thing I remembered was once stumbling upon http://www.needletravel.com
This is far cooler.
This is far cooler.