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 Mar 3 2009, 02:15 PM
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As you may have guessed, my interest in planetary maps has peaked again, and I think it's time to update all my Voyager-sourced maps. The question is, should I buy the latest USGS maps of Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa etc. or are new maps coming anytime soon?
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Mar 4 2009, 02:42 PM
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Why buy maps while they are all public available for personal use?
For example: http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html |
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Mar 4 2009, 03:33 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 13-February 09 Member No.: 4600 |
full inline quote removed - ADMIN
Because buying maps is cheaper than printing them out. |
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Apr 23 2009, 02:34 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 6-March 07 From: texas Member No.: 1828 |
QUOTE (Jeffrey @ Mar 4 2009, 10:33 AM)  full inline quote removed - ADMIN Because buying maps is cheaper than printing them out. If you wait till december, the Atlas of the Galilean Satellites will be available from Cambridge Press. The manuscript was sent out today! paul -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Apr 23 2009, 03:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4521 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Excellent news!
And another reply to the first in this thread: ----- "Why buy maps while they are all public available for personal use? For example: http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html" ----- The printed maps are a lot more than the plain images Steve Albers has produced. No offence, Steve, they are excellent image maps and they appear in a very timely fashion, and the projection is ideal for the computer rendering business. But the printed map from USGS contains more information, including feature names, a labelled grid, and a considerable amount of information about how it was made, the data sources, the map projection, and so on. Many users will prefer the map projection used for the printed map, which doesn't distort the poles as a Simple Cylindrical projection does. Besides which, as any cartophile will tell you, a hard copy map is a beautiful artifact which you just gotta have! A digital map is a tool, you can do things with it. But a paper map is a work of art. (drool!) Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 23 2009, 07:04 AM
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Paul, was that the book supposed to be available March 2008 ?
ISBN-13: 978-0521868358 |
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May 2 2009, 04:56 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 6-March 07 From: texas Member No.: 1828 |
QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Apr 23 2009, 02:04 AM) Paul, was that the book supposed to be available March 2008 ? ISBN-13: 978-0521868358 woooah! Sold out! excellent. (actually first ive seen that they made this public but yeah the manuscript went in last week and now has to go through production. I will send out some details when I know more about page counts, etc. but several hundred figures will be in it. p -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Feb 27 2012, 08:34 PM
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Greetings,
Here's an update on the feature map of Io I posted in another thread. Among other things more features are now being shown:
Full Resolution: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/features/c..._180_center.png Steve -------------------- Steve [ my planetary maps page ]
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Feb 27 2012, 10:18 PM
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Thank you very much for posting these maps. I am especially happy for this one of Io, also the one of Mercury you posted in another thread..
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Mar 11 2012, 02:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 738 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
TheAnt you're most welcome. Here's what I have at this point for Europa, with features larger than 40km. This is improved over the one I posted in the Image Processing thread. The feature labels are now rotated and offset for the Linea and such. Europa needed this more than any other planet/satellite as you might imagine.
Full resolution here: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/features/c...zero_center.png Steve -------------------- Steve [ my planetary maps page ]
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