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Hiking to the Clouds (Someday) A map of the Cactus to Clouds trail near Palm Springs, California and how to recreate it in ArcGIS Pro with cartography tools.

And immediately gets bookmarked into my inspirations folder.

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When one of your favorite science communicators convinces you that that the best science podcast was a show you loved to laugh with. As soon as I’m done with the video, I’m firing up the NPR app for some memories.

If you look close you can spot Hells Canyon Dam in the shots.

I was reading this @npr.org story and decided to take a look at Hells Canyon (the deepest river gorge in the United States) in 3D.

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#arcgispro #b3d #hellscanyon #Idaho #Oregon

Made from NYC LiDAR, processed in ArcGIS Pro and rendered in blender.

That time of year again - resharing this map of Manhattanhenge from 2020. Same day and time every year.

These maps indicate the 5 best streets with unobstructed views and the best times to experience Manhattanhenge.

#arcgispro #blender #LiDAR #manhattan #NYC #manhattanhenge

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And one more of Yellowstone without clouds

Yellowstone National Park, WY - MT - ID – USGS – 1961

3D Render

#Yellowstone #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming #Montana #Idaho #ArcGISPro #b3d

State of California - US Dept. of the Interior - Geological Survey - 1971

3D Render - with and without bathymetry.

#California #arcgispro #geography #b3d

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A few more closeups.

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Another two pack of interesting topography. Both a colorized shaded relief and standard topo quads. The elevation data is nice and high res to even see the furrows in the fields.

Voltaire, ND - USGS - 1948

3D Render

#NorthDakota #geography #geology #gis #arcgispro #b3d

USGS 3DEP at 1m resolution.

Yes. Look back through some of my posts for more...hope you like them.

I honestly thought I had some weird tiling issue in the mosaic on this one before I realized it was roads.

And here's a clay render of Ennis, MT.

You can download the full res clay render here: drive.google.com/file/d/11XjP...

#Montana #geomorphology #sedimentology #arcgispro #b3d

Ennis, MT - USGS - 1949

A literal textbook example of an alluvial fan.

3D render - 2 different maps of the same area. Both from 1949.

#Montana #geomorphology #sedimentology #arcgispro #b3d

I thought I would try it with bathymetry in. So I just ramped a GEBCO raster I have.

Got a request for New Zealand. Hope you don't mind only having the North and South Islands in and not the smaller ones.

Average elevation for the hexes then the real elevation added back in.

#NewZealand #arcgispro #b3d #hexagonsarebestagons

Working on another hex request.

A follower on Instagram wanted to see what Canada would look like if I gave it same hex treatment as the US.
Each hex is assigned the average elevation of the area it's over and then the real elevation is added back in.

#canada #hexagon #arcgispro #b3d

Trying to make a decent STL of a flat hex of the US.

Square generation was constrained to a continental US border shapefile, and sizes were constrained by an upper and lower area in square kilometers.

I was adding the avg z to the hex map, but then I thought…I wonder what it would look like if I wrote an ArcPy script to randomly distribute random sized overlapping squares over the US and give each of those the z mean of the area they fall over.

#arcgispro #arcpy #b3d

Each hex is keyed to the max Z value in US elevation it's over. I'm doing another on where they are given the average elevation value instead of max to see how it comes out.

#arcgispro #b3d

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The Shackleton Range stretches approximately 100 miles (160 km) east–west between the Slessor and Recovery Glaciers, reaching elevations up to 1,875 meters (6,152 ft) at Holmes Summit in the Read Mountains.

Here's a textureless clay render.

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Shackleton Range, Antarctica - USGS in cooperation with the National Science Foundation - 1983

3D Render

#Antarctica #antarctic #arcgispro #b3d

And a few more WA close ups.

State of Washington, Shaded Relief - United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey - Edition of 1964, Corrected 1968

3D Render

#ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest

And a couple more close ups.