{"id":2484,"date":"2017-02-23T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2017-02-23T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:57:44","slug":"lego-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2017\/02\/lego-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Nelson<\/a>‘s blog post on Lego-ified maps<\/a> inspired me to play around with some satellite imagery myself. John’s description of the process is very clear and easy to follow. The only thing I’d add is a recommendation to use a graphics software that has a function to “Pixelate” or “Downsample” images. I used Paint.net<\/a> on Windows. Using “Pixelate” it can downsample the background images to a resolution of 30 pixels in one quick step.<\/p>\n

But let’s see some maps:<\/p>\n

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New York City, Connecticut and Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The mouth of the Mississippi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The British Isles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Great Lakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Florida Keys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crater Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Caribbean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lac Leman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Baja California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Z\u00fcrich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scotland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Nile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Aegean Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Uluru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vierwaldst\u00e4ttersee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Z\u00fcrich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St-Malo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Switzerland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Interlaken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mount Rainier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Switzerland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Great Lakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Switzerland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Nelson‘s blog post on Lego-ified maps inspired me to play around with some satellite imagery myself. John’s description of the process is very clear and easy to follow. The only thing I’d add is a recommendation to use a graphics software that has a function to “Pixelate” or “Downsample” images. I used Paint.net on … Continue reading Lego maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-piece"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lego-map-Great-Lakes-2.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}