Pictures of the Earth - 30 foot wide poster anyone?

[joust]

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=7134

86400 x 43200 pixels

Enough to print onto 30' wide at 250dpi!



The detail is amazing, just amazing

J

[wedge girl]

Thanks for that, I will print that off, will look superb on my Daughter wall.

[joust]

I'm going to bittorrent the full one and then print it off on my A0 roll printer at work. Should make a nice picture for the wall!

J

[wedge girl]

Only got an A1 at home so it will have to be in sections.....probably make it easier to stick on the wall

[FrenchTVR]

Thanks Justin, there goes another set of ink cartridges

[joust]

There are masses more at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/, and there are also different ones of the above for each of the months of the year (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID

The "Bathymetry" ones (???) have facinating colours in the seas!



Take time choosing which one you like before you print it out!

J

[johnirving]

These look awesome and I could put one to good use.

The problem is that once downloaded my pc sulks due to the file size!!

Could someone be really kind and re-size one of the full world pics - as in the first post here - (ideally a July one!) to about 2500 pixels x 1*** pixels so I could use this??

Cheers for any help,

John.

>> Edited by johnirving on Tuesday 17th January 21:32

[agent006]

joust said:

I'm going to bittorrent the full one and then print it off on my A0 roll printer at work. Should make a nice picture for the wall! J

Have you got a link to the torrent file?

[joust]

It's in the page that you click through to.

On the first link I gave, just scroll right down to the bottom and you'll find the ones ending in .torrent.

Elsewhere click on the "more imagery..." link on the summary page.

J

[joust]

johnirving said:

These look awesome and I could put one to good use. The problem is that once downloaded my pc sulks due to the file size!! Could someone be really kind and re-size one of the full world pics - as in the first post here - (ideally a July one!) to about 2500 pixels x 1*** pixels so I could use this?? Cheers for any help, John. >> Edited by johnirving on Tuesday 17th January 21:32

Download the 20Mb one, then download the Microsoft Image resizer

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Right click the image, click resize image, then select custom and set the width and height in pixels.

Sure your PC can't cope with the 20Mb JPEG one??? - e.g.
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7134/world.topo.20041

Read the readme.pdf (http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7134/readme.pdf) to find out what all the filenames mean.

J

[johnirving]

It opens fine, but to try and edit it (ie resize) the program says its not possible due to the memory needed - I have 512mb so a bit suprised myself considering that I have photos upto 8mb which edit quickly with no hassle.

It tells me the image is an illegal width in other applications I try and open it with.

John.

>> Edited by johnirving on Tuesday 17th January 23:11

[johnirving]

joust said:

Download the 20Mb one, then download the Microsoft Image resizer www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Right click the image, click resize image, then select custom and set the width and height in pixels.

Thanks for that - problem solved!!

[joust]

johnirving said:

It opens fine, but to try and edit it (ie resize) the program says its not possible due to the memory needed - I have 512mb so a bit suprised myself considering that I have photos upto 8mb which edit quickly with no hassle.

Ah - I assume you are using "paint" that comes with Windows. It's a crap program that can't cope with it - download Paint Shop Pro or GIMP and you'll be fine.

J

[johnirving]

I tried PSP first, paint, Canon digital photo pro, ACDsee....... all sorts!!

None would have it, then used the Microsoft link (further down this thread) which allowed me to open the files once I had made them smaller.

Then I went back the the original 20mb+ file and for some reason that now opens fine too??

Not to worry - go the end result I wanted - in a roundabout way!

Thanks,

John.

>> Edited by johnirving on Wednesday 18th January 12:23

[GetCarter]

Out of interest, PSP wouldn't deal with the file on my 'puter, so I used PS which worked fine.

Steve

[_dobbo_]

GetCarter said:

Out of interest, PSP wouldn't deal with the file on my 'puter, so I used PS which worked fine. Steve

Yep PSP5 on my work PC chokes on it too..... have to wait till I get home!

[joust]

The full size one is over 3Gbytes large!

That'll give my PC at work something to think about

J

[Mr Noble]

Can't see any of them, they just open a white explorer page with a little red x in a white box. Left one for 10 mins incase it was downloading, but nothing!!??

[joust]

You can't open them in Internet Explorer - the images are too large!

You have to download them and then put them into something like PS, or double click on them to load into Windows Imaging.

J

[ehasler]

Downloading the big one now - only 20 hours to go!