I’ve created a series of “shaded maps” for the main Swiss cities, using SwissTopo digital surface models and other open data. Enjoy and guess the cities!
I’ve created a series of “shaded maps” for the main Swiss cities, using SwissTopo digital surface models and other open data. Enjoy and guess the cities!
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I recently started creating shaded maps of several cities (not only in Switzerland) by processing LiDAR data or digital surface models (when already available) by computing, on average, how much time each pixel is spending in shade or in the sun.
These maps are huge (usually 11.000 x 11.000 pixel) and one pixel corresponds to the resolution of the DSM. The resolution of Swiss digital surface models is 0.5 m, i.e. 1 pixel = 0.5 m x 0.5 m.
The data are downloaded from the SwissTopo website ([https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/geodata/height.html](https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/geodata/height.html)) and from the geoportals of the Basel (https://www.geo.bs.ch/) and Bern (https://www.agi.dij.be.ch) kantons.
This is super impressive!