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May 10, 2017

Interesting and Absurd Uses of Digital Elevation Models

By John Nelson

At the 2017 Esri User Conference, Ken Field will dazzle you with an array of beautiful techniques and examples of Relief Representation. I’ll be there, too, as the peanut gallery, tossing in strange, maybe useful, sometimes ridiculous, examples of Digital Elevation Model hacks. These may or may not include…

Bumpified Imagery

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Fake Plastic Maps

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Misty Mountains

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Hacking a Sunrise

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Brimstone

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Hypothetical Depths

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Painterliness

Come join us! Free high-fives from Ken for the first 10 attendees.

Hope to see you there. John

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John Nelson

I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. I also design user experiences for maps and apps. When I'm not doing those things, I'm chasing around toddlers and wrangling chickens, and generally getting into other ad-hoc adventures. Life is good. You might also like these Styles for ArcGIS Pro: esriurl.com/nelsonstyles

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Mathias Poulsen(@beof_mkp)
November 6, 2024 9:50 am

Is it possible to save and share a sketch? It would be great to be able to save the sketch to a json file and then send the json file to a coworker who then could import the file in either ArcGIS Online/Portal or ArcGIS Pro.