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vorropohaiah — Atlas Maps stitch in Google Earth
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Published: 2017-04-14 08:44:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 6677; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 0
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I spent much of the day messing around with Google Earth and QGIS , trying to change the projection of my Atlas Maps from Equidistant Conic to Equirectangular, so that I can wrap them around the above Google Earth map.More importantly I've needed a 'quick' way to convert the maps to Equirectangular, which will be invaluable later on when I need to do larger regional maps in various projections for the atlas. I say 'quick' - it's not a very speedy process changing the projection in QGIS, though its a lot simpler and more precise than doing it by hand on photoshop (Equidistant Conic is a horrid projection to convert out of).
I plan on repeating the process in more detail once I've done more maps, dividing the process into various layers - roads, cities, territories, etc. I'm actually really excited by this process, to the point that it's stalled my next map (you can see it in the lower right - a region with a vertical gulf dividing it)!
Many thanks to /r/tsseepra on reddit for the help with QGIS (which I'd never used until today
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I'm almost speechless.
Seriously, i have never seen maps made as beautiful and also as useful like the ones you create. Now that you have them combined and put on a globe, i can see their scale (compared to the planet) and i'm simply overwhelmed.
Just amazing!
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thanks 
Yeah, the planet is somewhat larger than earth, that just makes things that bit more difficult for me!
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Are there any large bodies of water? I feel like this planet would be very dry, given how much land in proportion to water there is.
Really awesome though!
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The other hemisphere has more water, but you're right, the hemisphere depicted here is relatively dry, especially Sammaea: the large continent in the south
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Wtf how epic, wouldn´t even know how to do that oO
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Thanks
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But it was worth every minute, it looks great man
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Thanks. It's a world I've been working on for some years called Elyden. Pretty much everything I post on deviantart is based here!
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So is that currently ALL of Elyria at the moment?
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all Elyden that's currently mapped in the atlas format is included in that stitch, above.
Once I'm done with the Inner Sea region I'll start with another area and so on. Sone inland regions Like Sammaea (that gigantic continent in the lower left are technically unexplored so I'll leave those 'blank' for the time being.
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