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Title: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: buzzzzz on February 19, 2007, 08:57:14 PM

A Link to some pretty cool Planet maps I stumbled across. High Res to!

http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html (http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html)

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: Blackheart6004 on February 19, 2007, 09:14:30 PM

It redirects back to Google homepage.

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: buzzzzz on February 19, 2007, 09:23:04 PM

Quote from: Blackheart6004 on February 19, 2007, 09:14:30 PM
It redirects back to Google homepage.

Sorry, Fixed now.

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: old_blaggard on February 19, 2007, 09:51:39 PM

Cool! Those look pretty nice. *Bookmarks*

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: twistednoodle on February 19, 2007, 10:06:53 PM

I have dutifully book marked the planet maps ..... (how do we use them?) :-\ (We need a dorky icon for me to use ....)

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: dhavalmistry on February 19, 2007, 11:31:28 PM

a noob question...how do I use these???.....

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: The Geostation on February 20, 2007, 02:47:42 AM

I haven't tried it, but there might be a way of converting these jpegs into heightfield maps. Possibly via a tool on the Internet, you might need to find two consecutive conversion tools to do this.

Also they may have to be used for long distance.

Andrew Randle
The Geostation

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: buchvecny on February 20, 2007, 07:53:13 AM

i have super hires mars map somewhere so PM me if u want it

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: inkydigit on February 20, 2007, 07:56:32 AM

nice find Jay!

Quote from: dhavalmistry on February 19, 2007, 11:31:28 PM
a noob question...how do I use these???.....

not sure if it is possible, but maybe using an image map shader attached to a displacement shader??
gonna have a go myself and see what happens!
:)

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: Tangled-Universe on February 20, 2007, 08:55:44 AM

@ buchvechny:

You mean these ones?

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=7100

@ Inky:

Image-based displacement might be a very good idea :)

Martin

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: rcallicotte on February 20, 2007, 09:43:47 AM

Here's another good place. The purchased maps are pretty decent quality, but even the free ones work okay.

http://planetpixelemporium.com/planets.html

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: king_tiger_666 on February 20, 2007, 02:58:09 PM

buzzzzz does that linky work for you? neither firefox 2 or internet explorer 7 will open it:(:(

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: Tangled-Universe on February 20, 2007, 03:11:29 PM

Works fine here with IE6

Earth's resolutions are a lot lower than at the site I've been linking here a few posts ago, but this site also has nice planet maps of the other planets from our solar system :)

Martin

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: Dark Fire on February 20, 2007, 03:52:14 PM

These maps are great finds! I can't wait to start using some...

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: bigben on February 20, 2007, 10:47:13 PM

Here's some more:
http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/planetary_maps.html (http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/planetary_maps.html)
With some interesting data on Saturn's rings for those wanting a real challenge...

http://www.snyderweb.com/planets/ (http://www.snyderweb.com/planets/)
mixed sizes generally between 1000 and 2000 pixels wide.

Title: Re: Planet Maps Discovery
Post by: Will on February 21, 2007, 07:31:44 PM

Nice finds guys thanks :)

Regards,

Will

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