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We manufacture these raised-relief maps using the above process. Is it OK to post a link to hubbardscientific.com? I could also post pictures of the actual process of vacuum forming the maps over a form if needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artjunky ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 28 November 2006
The decreasing cost and increasing access to 3D printers is opening up the technology to 3d-printed raised-relief maps. Two notable creators are terrainator.com and tinymtn.com - both sites that do their final sales through Shapeways. The maps have more detail than the generally-larger-scale maps produced by vacuum-forming, but can cover less area, and are more expensive. In the interests of disclosure, I started tinymtn.com as a hobby a few months ago to raise the awareness (no pun intended) of 3D printing of maps. I think a subsection on the same level as "Vacuum formed models" called "3D printed models" should be created, listing the pros and cons of the technology, linking to the larger "3D printing" page, and (I would hope) also linking to the several vendors of 3D printed maps. Markstock ( talk) 13:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Since we're both here, it's probably important to note this sentence from the first paragraph: "When representing terrain, the elevation dimension is usually exaggerated by a factor between five and ten; this facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features." While this is true for most vacuum-formed maps, it is obviously not true for many hand-made and almost all architectural and small-scale maps, notably the one pictured at the top of the page itself. A more-helpful sentence might state that "the elevation dimension is commonly exaggerated..." Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but I am seeing them more often now than the exaggerated variety. Markstock ( talk) 22:55, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
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Special:Diff/813218720 changed the passage in the lead section saying that exaggerating the vertical dimension of a raised-relief map "facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features" to say that it "facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features and velocity" (emphasis added), in which state the passage remains. Is this correct? I'm no expert on raised-relief maps, but I shouldn't think that they tend to encode velocity, except perhaps in " Non-terrain applications". I suppose the editor could have meant the derivative of height with respect to horizontal distance? — 2d37 ( talk) 22:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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We manufacture these raised-relief maps using the above process. Is it OK to post a link to hubbardscientific.com? I could also post pictures of the actual process of vacuum forming the maps over a form if needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Artjunky ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 28 November 2006
The decreasing cost and increasing access to 3D printers is opening up the technology to 3d-printed raised-relief maps. Two notable creators are terrainator.com and tinymtn.com - both sites that do their final sales through Shapeways. The maps have more detail than the generally-larger-scale maps produced by vacuum-forming, but can cover less area, and are more expensive. In the interests of disclosure, I started tinymtn.com as a hobby a few months ago to raise the awareness (no pun intended) of 3D printing of maps. I think a subsection on the same level as "Vacuum formed models" called "3D printed models" should be created, listing the pros and cons of the technology, linking to the larger "3D printing" page, and (I would hope) also linking to the several vendors of 3D printed maps. Markstock ( talk) 13:30, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Since we're both here, it's probably important to note this sentence from the first paragraph: "When representing terrain, the elevation dimension is usually exaggerated by a factor between five and ten; this facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features." While this is true for most vacuum-formed maps, it is obviously not true for many hand-made and almost all architectural and small-scale maps, notably the one pictured at the top of the page itself. A more-helpful sentence might state that "the elevation dimension is commonly exaggerated..." Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but I am seeing them more often now than the exaggerated variety. Markstock ( talk) 22:55, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
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Special:Diff/813218720 changed the passage in the lead section saying that exaggerating the vertical dimension of a raised-relief map "facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features" to say that it "facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features and velocity" (emphasis added), in which state the passage remains. Is this correct? I'm no expert on raised-relief maps, but I shouldn't think that they tend to encode velocity, except perhaps in " Non-terrain applications". I suppose the editor could have meant the derivative of height with respect to horizontal distance? — 2d37 ( talk) 22:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC)