[HN Gopher] Show HN: Atlas - GIS and interactive maps in the bro...
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Show HN: Atlas - GIS and interactive maps in the browser
Author : vloewe
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-01-23 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| samstave wrote:
| AWESOME!.
|
| 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:
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| https://app.atlas.co/projects/ft2YpKbX2NgOZueSPSTa?loc=16.38...
|
| -
|
| 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...
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| https://i.imgur.com/YFXkgQh.png
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| https://app.atlas.co/projects/RHOMLpu0kDJLDsCNyLYI?loc=-122....
| jamessb wrote:
| > Some of your community maps deserve their own HN posts, such
| as the global submarine cable map:
|
| Other submarine cable maps have been posted to HN before [1].
| The one on https://www.submarinecablemap.com is more
| interactive and provides more information that this map on
| Atlas.
|
| [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=submarine+cable+map
| samstave wrote:
| Yeah :-)
|
| Also why I mentioned it...
|
| What I noticed is the Infrastructure Tab, and reminded of how
| an infra map was pulled from some kids thesis because they
| felt it was a threat to have a map of communications infra in
| public hands.
| zyang wrote:
| If you are interested in making map art, there's a Figma plugin
| that can pull map data as vector:
| https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072
| samstave wrote:
| Wonderful, thank you!
| ecommerceguy wrote:
| >>So - I have been looking for the right tool(s) to use - and
| devour stuff like this.
|
| You can get the entire ArcGIS suite for $100/yr with the home
| license.
| jamessb wrote:
| How does this compare to Felt [1]?
|
| It would be nice to have some plans with listed prices in between
| "Free" and "Enterprise" ("book a demo"). For comparison, Felt has
| $30/mo and $90/mo plans.
|
| Calling yourselves "the new standard for GIS software" seems like
| overly strong branding.
|
| [1]: https://felt.com/
| simantel wrote:
| Also interesting to see this pop up two months after Tom
| MacWright announced he was shutting down and open-sourcing
| Placemark: https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark
|
| (Discussed on HN here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38250459)
| bozhark wrote:
| I have a stupid dream.
|
| I really want a news application that is rendered visually as the
| Globe. Then a user can drag, zoom, and pan around the world,
| similar to Google Earth.
|
| The difference being, this news app overlays current trending
| news stories on the physical location of where it is happening in
| the world.
|
| Maybe I can manage this idea with this underneath?
| nickster wrote:
| The wii news channel did this! It was a cool way to learn the
| control and interact with the news.
| danielvaughn wrote:
| Facebook Live used to have a global view, where you could drag
| around on a Google-earth-style map, and each dot would be a
| live stream.
|
| It was amazing. Unfortunately there were crimes committed on
| stream, notably a mass shooting in New Zealand. They shut down
| the map view soon after that.
|
| A news broadcast would be feasible, because presumably the
| streamers would be verified reporters.
|
| Really cool idea. I love it.
| _sam_ wrote:
| I've actually been making exactly what you describe as a side-
| project - and am very close to launch-ready. I was looking for
| the same thing and decided it would be fun to build it myself.
| It's good to hear (at least one) other persons might be
| interested in such an app.
| pkage wrote:
| I'd also be interested--is there anywhere we can take a look?
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| Does this idea need a globe? Wouldn't it work with a map?
| moandcompany wrote:
| Somewhat Related - You may like the GDELT Project:
| https://www.gdeltproject.org/
|
| https://blog.gdeltproject.org/an-interactive-realtime-map-of...
| guwop wrote:
| this is so cool! you just know that it's real shit when the
| website looks like that. i wonder if this is gonna be the new
| "quality" stamp - a website not looking like the generic
| react tailwind app but rather stuff like this?!
| ecmascript wrote:
| I thought "ah nice, maybe a mapbox alternative" but it seems not
| to be the case unfortunately
| NetToolKit wrote:
| What features are you looking for in a Mapbox alternative?
| Tiles? Geocoding? Anything else?
| guwop wrote:
| I got excited! But it seems this is just a mapbox gl wrapper?
| totalview wrote:
| How does this handle 3D reality capture datasets such as las,
| obj, slpk/i3S? I saw support for 3D building tilesets but could
| not find anything else
| crtified wrote:
| This will probably sound more cynical than it's meant, because I
| do admire this, but here we go anyway - Whenever I see these
| impressive-looking online data visualisation projects, I think:
| What would be interesting - and/or convincing - would be case
| studies written by experienced GIS people showing how and why
| they would use this (as compared with other offerings).
|
| Because there are quite a few data visualisation options around
| these days, many re-imagining subsets of standard GIS
| functionality from 20+ years ago, into their own online,
| collaborative, friendly UI (<-- what Microsoft used to call "a
| wizard"). It's very impressive but at the same time, the unique
| contributions of such projects are often in the areas of
| visualisation and UI, rather than in the area of geography. Which
| are important in their own right!, but will not necessarily be
| the primary consideration of some categories of user.
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