{"id":20472,"date":"2022-11-13T05:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=20472"},"modified":"2022-11-20T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T09:03:22","slug":"middle-earth-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/middle-earth-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth DEMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.wm.edu\/asoer\/3\/\">GIS &#038; Middle-earth<\/a>, plus free DEM files&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Center for Geospatial Analysis at William &#038; Mary, has developed an extensive list of GIS layers of Middle-earth, including a 50m elevation model, roads, rivers, realms and many others. &#8230; The data shared below include the complete set of vector layers in wither shapefile or Esri geodatabase format and the 50m DEM of Middle-earth as four quadrants (geo tiff format).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Based on the remains of the old (now offline) <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bburns\/arda\">Outerra version<\/a> of Middle-earth terrain, but substantially improved and overhauled. A 50m DEM is only suitable for a high &#8220;eagle&#8217;s eye view&#8221; or a highly zoomed-out isometric map. That said, AI auto-detailing for low-res DEMs is seeing some progress and will likely see more.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no .torrent, just .ZIPs. I downloaded the smallest .ZIP and loaded the .TIF heightmap to Vue. Here&#8217;s the Gap of Rohan with the Fords of Isen, and Isengard at the top of the picture and in the centre of a bowl of mountains. Helm&#8217;s Deep is at the edge of the mountains on the bottom-left. A basic map is overlaid.  You&#8217;ll need maps at massive scanned resolution, to looks crisp when overlaid at this scale. Though the ideal is probably just to get the angle and render, and then over-draw your own hand-drawn isometric map in the Middle-earth style. Although I near that pro GIS systems now have various auto-styles that might get you started there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/middle-earth-dem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/middle-earth-dem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/middle-earth-dem.jpg 900w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/middle-earth-dem-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/middle-earth-dem-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIS &#038; Middle-earth, plus free DEM files&#8230; &#8220;the Center for Geospatial Analysis at William &#038; Mary, has developed an extensive list of GIS layers of Middle-earth, including a 50m elevation model, roads, rivers, realms and many others. &#8230; The data shared below include the complete set of vector layers in wither shapefile or Esri geodatabase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20510,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions\/20510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}