Satellite images of cities at night attending wonderful—until you zoom in and apprehend that they're a big, bleared mess. These attractive city-limits images, fabricated by Marc Khachfe, break that problem—because they're in actuality computer generated from OpenStreetMap data.
Using the accessible antecedent mapping data, Khachfe is able to actualize a apish map of the ablaze you'd apprehend to flash into the night sky from burghal environments. He explains:
"About a year ago, I came beyond OpenStreetMap data; accessible abstracts on alley and basement from cities all about the world. I was destroyed abroad by the abundance of advice and toyed with it for six months, afore I came up with the abstraction of replicating the astronauts photos.
"I had capital to book a big affiche of the London night shot, but begin them all to be too bleared to use, so i downloaded the London OSM abstracts and created a "light map" that I again layered and shone through the abstracts layers. No images were acclimated at all in creating the maps — but I did attending at the absolute photos for reference."
At the top of the column is his yield on London at night; beneath is Paris.
As able-bodied as Rio de Janeiro:
Chicago:
Amsterdam:
Berlin:
And San Francisco:
If you like what you see, you can in actuality buy copies of Khachfe's Etsy page. You can currently buy London, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Chicago, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro and Berlin, but added on the way—including Beijing, Hong Kong, New York and Moscow. [Marc Khachfe]
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