Skua@kbin.earth to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoGoogle has only mapped the shape of the river Sepik on the Indonesian side of the bordermedia.kbin.earthimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down10
arrow-up1114arrow-down1imageGoogle has only mapped the shape of the river Sepik on the Indonesian side of the bordermedia.kbin.earthSkua@kbin.earth to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squaregroet@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·12 hours agoGoogle doesn’t map things. They take existing maps and then overlay the satellite images. Most likely Indonesia has more detailed Maos of the area than the Papuan side
minus-squareSparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoHow do they convert it into a vector rendering though? I’m assuming they start with topo maps?
Google doesn’t map things. They take existing maps and then overlay the satellite images. Most likely Indonesia has more detailed Maos of the area than the Papuan side
How do they convert it into a vector rendering though? I’m assuming they start with topo maps?