Planetary Maps - 16 and 8k

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:49 am

Yes, I am satisfied. Perhaps it's a good idea that Tim put these 3 files on his site, so that everyone can use them.
BTW, I have 512 Mb RAM and I can generate maps with the 19k file. It takes some time but the results are great.

Greetings

Fred

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:35 am

Amazing the map imported at all....I don't think you would be able to open it in a graphics programme. Anyway, glad it imported for you!

As far as Tim having any of them on his site, he doesn't....least as far as I know. He did say something about posting a link or something to my maps in the mapping Support and Faqs section on the weathergraphics homepage. I basically just emailed him to let him know I was offering them for DA WS users, and he posted a link to them....the maps that are on there will be available for those who want them, don't worry:)

Pat

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:42 am

Yes, it was also possible to open it in Paint Shop Pro. It only took "some time". It was even possible to select parts of the image. It was not possible to do actions like "sharpen".
During all these manipulations in PSP and making new maps in DAWS the program for receiving MSG-1 was running too. You see, it's not that bad.

Greetings

Fred

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:53 am

You have one weird system..no doubt about that:) You can save a basemap after importing then manipulate the bitmap from the saved map in paintshop.

With all those things running I still wonder if you don't have more than 512...I'll take your word for it though:)

Pat

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:02 am

My system is (unfortunately) really 512 Mb. and 2,67G.
The hicolor-bump is 557 Mb. This is the file I can import in PSP.

Generating a map:
I made a map of Europe with the size of 2560x1920. This is the maximum size for my MSG-1 images. I imported the planetary map which took 7 1/2 minute.
Saving this file resulted in a map of 19Mb.

So it only take some time.

Greetings

Fred

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:53 pm

Fred,

I'm not being critical of your computer...just surprised by how much the things can swap around at times:)

I wouldn't mind taking a look at the map you created with the satellite imagery..

Thanks

Pat

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:09 am

I did not took your words as critical, just as a very interested person, That why I explained it in more detail.
If you send me your email-adress offline, I will send you some examples. I don't have a website.

Greetings

Fred

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:18 am

The 19K..

Since some wondered just what this looks like here is the link:

http://www.wistorms.net/planetaryZips/hicolor_bump.zip ...the download is about 130 mbs, and once extracted will, hopefully, import with 512 mbs of ram as it is left uncompressed.

Examples which compare the 16k and 19K:
http://www.wistorms.net/examples/16K.bmp
http://www.wistorms.net/examples/19K.bmp
The 19K will improve the clarity of mountain ranges at closer zooms.

Pat

synoptic · Post by **synoptic** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:10 pm

Hello,
I'm not shore if i'm right here, I hope.
In Digital Atmosphere is a basic image of the usa is there a way to get all images of the world in ones here from this board, the planetery maps that are in zip file are not right. I'm not able to download the file right. it downloads but notting is in the zip file and it's downloaded in only 2 seconds time.
Hope someone can help me out with all maps?

Marcel

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:49 pm

Which planetary map did you try to download?

All the links I just checked seem to be working fine--I only downloaded several megabytes per file, but the connection seemed steady enough.

If you are having connection difficulties, try using a download manager.

Pat