here's a big pile of exported maps if you want to download them: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/make-this-ai-inspired-topo-landscape-please/
Thanks John for an awesome tutorial. Im a bit rusty on my ol GIS skills and this took me longer than I wished but, ultimately, I got it done for a local area of mine. Thanks for being a wizard!
Thanks for the new desktop background! I like the ones without the cartoonizing outlines better, too. I want to print it and get your autograph on it :)
sweet! well maybe i'll see you at the esri user conference.
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Thank you John. It will be a pleasure to follow your instructions and model the contour lines. I have a colleague who made 3D contour models many years ago using cardboard from his children's cereal boxes. I will try to make a visualisation of the 3D model.
Hi John, simply amazing thank you. One question though. If i wanted to add highways, and points of interest, it seems the alignment will be off due to the offsets of the contours... any suggestions or work arounds? Please and thank you.
thanks! yes, this is true, overlain layers will not share that vertical pseudo-3D offset. what i would do (and maybe might demonstrate sometime) is using the "union" tool to split an overlay layer (like roads or trails) where they intersect the topo boundaries, run the "spatial join" tool to assign each line segment the contour polygon's elevation, then offset the line segments the same way.
Hi John. Just so good - and thank you. Question- I live in Cape Town where the face of Table Mountain is quite iconic. But my map orientation orientations appears to create a vantage of 'looking' from the South. How would I re-orientate my vantage to get these effects from the North to see the face of Table Mountain (Christmas T-shirt printing here we come...)...Mark
@@markrichards912 cool idea! Yes, I’m the map’s properties dialog, in the general tab, there’s a rotation option. Since the contour offset is just Y, the map can be rotated and the offsets will still go “up”
Pretty cool! I was able to create something similar utilizing either the Terrain Tools v1.1 (created by Kenneth Field and Linda Beale, for ESRI in 2016) or one of WarrenDz's Effects Packages, combined with your own "paper texture" as the image-fill. ...I've a large and confusing folder titled "Cartography Nerd Resources" within my "Add-Ins" folder. But the end result _really does_ resemble paper-cut topography maps.
Lovely! Very beautiful and technical complex! I will also do the same thing for lake's bathymetry! In the expressions of move effects, should I multiply rather than divide to have the right deph effect? Thank you for everything!
This is awesome. I tried doing this with bathymetry data (the data has both positive and negative elevations) and anything below the water surface is covered...I can't wrap my head around why.
hmmm, that's odd. i do recall having to do some experimentation with the contour options. i chose "contour shell up" but with negative values, maybe one of the other options is appropriate?
This contour is awesome. I followed the steps, but when I want to export the map, ArcGIS Pro transformation warning window is displayed, and said "A datum transformation cannot be found. The data may draw with an offset." This problem puzzled me for several days. Hope to get your answer, thank you very much!
yeah, i don't know exactly why it's saying that. it says it for me, too. we create the contour layer in the application, so there should be a matching coordinate system. but maybe it's a setting i overlooked in the contour creation dialog. either way, it's not important since offsetting the contours is the whole point of this exercise and there isn't a need to perfectly align its content with other layer (which wouldn't work, given our visual offsets). we can safely ignore it in this context.
@@JohnNelsonMaps Thank you for your reply, I will continue to follow your videos to learn more interesting ways of mapping! Your maps are really great! It inspired me a lot!
Just amazing. I am very weak in ArcGIS,but I am trying. I have a question. I am preparing a geological Map. Will this Method help me in Separating Rock Unit,? Can I draw contacts of Formations with it?
I feel like the 2d offset at the start could be great for laser cutting this in acrylic for a big 3d model of terrain. IE what you made, but in physical space
that website is just a very much improved UI to NASA's download website, which requires the account. so not that I know of. you could also try this site, from the USGS, of higher resolution lidar data. not sure if they require an account: apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/
Thank you for the amaing tutorial. I have one question, i cannot finde the database button which is beside Offset X and Y, would you assist me with that?
i really don't know. if ArcMap lets you apply a y-move based on attributes, than yes. otherwise no. but the good news is, if you have a license to ArcGIS desktop, you have a license to Pro.
thanks! it renders as a 3D scene, but the y-move hack makes everything look smeared off in one direction. you could skip the -move hack if you want to make your map in actual 3D, but i've found 2D renders much crisper and 3D has visual artifacts associated with the distance from the camera and you'll see line breaks of lowered resolution.
This might be a silly question, but thanks to your tutorial I've got a great looking map, but it takes forever to render it each time I move around the map. Is there a way to bake all the layers together into a static, hi-res raster that I can move around in easily?
GIS was so dull till you came around, John. The channel is like Lexapro for the lowly Analyst. Make it look good and they'll let you keep getting that money check.
here's a big pile of exported maps if you want to download them: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/make-this-ai-inspired-topo-landscape-please/
"Always have friends who are smarter than you are." You're my smarter friend, Mr Nelson.
Ha! 😂
If I could like a thousand times, I would! I love contours so much
thanks Thomas! contours are pretty glorious.
Man I have work to do. I can't sit around and watch these videos all day. Quit making them so awesome.
yes, Charles, you must!
I don't know how you do it, this is incredible! You've been a big inspiration on me taking my maps to another level. I'm going to give this a shot.
wow, thanks Erik! i hope you give this one a shot, it's a lot of fun.
Discovered this channel last night. Mind exploded. You are the absolute best!!!
Wow thank you James! Welcome!
Witchcraft!! But something I'm going to try. Enjoying the outros too.
thanks! i'd love to see what you make!
Thanks John for an awesome tutorial. Im a bit rusty on my ol GIS skills and this took me longer than I wished but, ultimately, I got it done for a local area of mine. Thanks for being a wizard!
@@coyotefire69420 I’m glad you tried it out! Thanks for your kind words
Thanks for the new desktop background! I like the ones without the cartoonizing outlines better, too.
I want to print it and get your autograph on it :)
sweet! well maybe i'll see you at the esri user conference.
Thank you John. It will be a pleasure to follow your instructions and model the contour lines. I have a colleague who made 3D contour models many years ago using cardboard from his children's cereal boxes.
I will try to make a visualisation of the 3D model.
that sounds like a cool dad!
Hi John, simply amazing thank you. One question though. If i wanted to add highways, and points of interest, it seems the alignment will be off due to the offsets of the contours... any suggestions or work arounds? Please and thank you.
I divided by 100 instead of 10 and that fit my map better. Cheers.
thanks! yes, this is true, overlain layers will not share that vertical pseudo-3D offset. what i would do (and maybe might demonstrate sometime) is using the "union" tool to split an overlay layer (like roads or trails) where they intersect the topo boundaries, run the "spatial join" tool to assign each line segment the contour polygon's elevation, then offset the line segments the same way.
This is super cool, thanks for sharing!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Mr. John! I really love with what you've created
thanks Rafli!
Amazing tutorial as always, John! Thank you so much for this!
Thanks!
That was awesome. I need to try just the first part
enjoy the first part!
YOU'RE JUST GENIUS
must be a very specific form of genius that doesn't require being smart!
Gracias maestro Nelson, siempre disfruto sus vídeos, saludos
Gracias por sus amables palabras, estoy encantado de ayudar!
You continue to inspire me... I'm going to try it and add it to my bag of tricks!!
great, Tom! thanks.
This was definitely worth the wait! I'm gonna try it on some interesting relief features and see how it turns out 😄
great! i hope you show me how it turns out!
Hi John. Just so good - and thank you. Question- I live in Cape Town where the face of Table Mountain is quite iconic. But my map orientation orientations appears to create a vantage of 'looking' from the South. How would I re-orientate my vantage to get these effects from the North to see the face of Table Mountain (Christmas T-shirt printing here we come...)...Mark
@@markrichards912 cool idea! Yes, I’m the map’s properties dialog, in the general tab, there’s a rotation option. Since the contour offset is just Y, the map can be rotated and the offsets will still go “up”
I've tried this process and it is amazing. Thank you
@@ricardojaviergarnicapena6749 that’s great wheat, thanks!
Pretty cool!
I was able to create something similar utilizing either the Terrain Tools v1.1 (created by Kenneth Field and Linda Beale, for ESRI in 2016) or one of WarrenDz's Effects Packages, combined with your own "paper texture" as the image-fill. ...I've a large and confusing folder titled "Cartography Nerd Resources" within my "Add-Ins" folder. But the end result _really does_ resemble paper-cut topography maps.
@@ODWC-GIS awesome! I’d love to see it!
any time you make a video , we learn new. thta's the best .
Thanks!
It was a treat watching this! I am just starting to learn ArcGIS Pro in my post graduation. Looks damn fun 😊
Will try for sure 👍
Great to hear! Thanks
Lovely! Very beautiful and technical complex!
I will also do the same thing for lake's bathymetry! In the expressions of move effects, should I multiply rather than divide to have the right deph effect?
Thank you for everything!
@@sebastiengentet9032 thanks! No just do the same formula for above and below water. Otherwise the water will appear inverted and look like hills.
Thanks John, I'm definitely gonna use it
cool!
You are a genius, John. I can't even follow your video even though I always slow down the video speed.
Oh shoot, I’m sorry!
I do when I slow down the video. I learn so much more. Chicanery was new to me. I love them! Your map videos are my screen two!
@@AbhijayaDhakal thanks Abhijaya!
This is Beautiful!, probably i need more than decade to hit this level of creativity, lol!
give it a shot!
Yet another gem! Thank you John. This may be a nice technique for mount Doom , i.e Mt Ngāuruhoe. 😉
thanks Zorko! you will probably do some amazing things with this method.
Love it. Can’t wait to try it out.
Thanks!
This is awesome. I tried doing this with bathymetry data (the data has both positive and negative elevations) and anything below the water surface is covered...I can't wrap my head around why.
hmmm, that's odd. i do recall having to do some experimentation with the contour options. i chose "contour shell up" but with negative values, maybe one of the other options is appropriate?
@@JohnNelsonMaps It was an easy fix. Just had to set the contours to start at a negative number. Duh. Thanks!
@@jeniferbratsch7488 ah, great! glad you got it sorted. how does it look?
This contour is awesome. I followed the steps, but when I want to export the map, ArcGIS Pro transformation warning window is displayed, and said "A datum transformation cannot be found. The data may draw with an offset." This problem puzzled me for several days. Hope to get your answer, thank you very much!
yeah, i don't know exactly why it's saying that. it says it for me, too. we create the contour layer in the application, so there should be a matching coordinate system. but maybe it's a setting i overlooked in the contour creation dialog. either way, it's not important since offsetting the contours is the whole point of this exercise and there isn't a need to perfectly align its content with other layer (which wouldn't work, given our visual offsets). we can safely ignore it in this context.
@@JohnNelsonMaps Thank you for your reply, I will continue to follow your videos to learn more interesting ways of mapping! Your maps are really great! It inspired me a lot!
@@Maxine_Lee thanks!
Just amazing. I am very weak in ArcGIS,but I am trying. I have a question. I am preparing a geological Map. Will this Method help me in Separating Rock Unit,? Can I draw contacts of Formations with it?
@@talathussain5078 welcome, and enjoy! I wouldn’t consider this method good for analytical work, it’s more of a fun representation of terrain
@@JohnNelsonMaps Thank you so much for your feedback. Anyways,very, very beautiful presentation. I love it.
I feel like the 2d offset at the start could be great for laser cutting this in acrylic for a big 3d model of terrain. IE what you made, but in physical space
yeah! here's a thing about that: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/how-to-make-those-cool-wood-cut-terrain-models/
Thanks, John. So cool! Is there anywhere to get this same DEM data without a NASA account? I'd love to try this, but can't access the data.
that website is just a very much improved UI to NASA's download website, which requires the account. so not that I know of. you could also try this site, from the USGS, of higher resolution lidar data. not sure if they require an account: apps.nationalmap.gov/lidar-explorer/
You da man! I think that worked and it looks like the exact same data just not behind a wall. Thanks@@JohnNelsonMaps
Thank you for the amaing tutorial. I have one question, i cannot finde the database button which is beside Offset X and Y, would you assist me with that?
Yes! First you have to “activate symbol property connections”. It’s an option in the hamburger menu in the top right corner of the symbology pane.
@@JohnNelsonMaps thank you so much for the swift response, much much appreciated!
This is a nice departure from working with attribute tables and schemas all day
a change of scenery helps sometimes!
Awesome stuff!
Thanks!
Can we do this in ArcGIS desktop??
i really don't know. if ArcMap lets you apply a y-move based on attributes, than yes. otherwise no. but the good news is, if you have a license to ArcGIS desktop, you have a license to Pro.
Absolutely phenomenal!
Thanks!
Love this!!
What happens when you drag the layer into a 3D scene?
thanks! it renders as a 3D scene, but the y-move hack makes everything look smeared off in one direction. you could skip the -move hack if you want to make your map in actual 3D, but i've found 2D renders much crisper and 3D has visual artifacts associated with the distance from the camera and you'll see line breaks of lowered resolution.
Beautiful
thank you!
you are a genius John!!
not really but i sure appreciate your kind words!
Awesome Stuff!!
Thanks!
Hey Jhon, how did you copy the renamed color layer?
hold the CTRL key and then drag the layer. Sorry, in the video i said the shift key, but it's the CTRL key.
This might be a silly question, but thanks to your tutorial I've got a great looking map, but it takes forever to render it each time I move around the map. Is there a way to bake all the layers together into a static, hi-res raster that I can move around in easily?
Great! Yes, export your map as a geoTIFF file.
@@JohnNelsonMaps thank you!
@@cshug18 you bet, have fun!
what software is this ?
ArcGIS Pro
Woww, amazing work!
thanks!
Very cool
Thanks Jimmy!
Amazing
Thanks!
Is this doable in QGIS? Best regards!
I don’t know
came out beautifully, how do you make your symbology changes apply automatically?
thanks! ah, this is a new feature in Pro 3.2. there is a switch at the bottom of the symbology panel. i love it.
Espectacular
thanks!
This is awesome
Thanks Ace!
4:06, I did not think you were going to say "SHading"
Who knows what I’m capable of
Ah, many thanks.
@@markrichards912 you bet!
Where art meets science, much like beer brewing.
Nice!
This is amazing!!!!
Thanks Roland!
Epic!
Thanks!
Amazing! That's all I want to say
well thank you!
Great
@@Wisdom_Waves69 thank you, Wisdom
Epic!!!
Thanks Michael!
WWWWWWWWOOOWWW!!!
thanks Alfonso!
Hi Pepper!
Incredible ur are very talented 🧐
Thanks Poorni!
What?! How?!
Hi Kinga!
GIS was so dull till you came around, John. The channel is like Lexapro for the lowly Analyst. Make it look good and they'll let you keep getting that money check.
ha, thanks! googling lexapro now...
Love from 🇮🇳🇮🇳
thanks! what's ININ?
@@JohnNelsonMaps you can't see the flag? it's the flag of india 🇮🇳
Way too many overlapping and crossing contours in that AI map. Looks like we get to keep our jobs for a few more months.
i heard that
DOGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😄
I should be working, but now I am going to have some fun instead.
it is working, they call it professional development! :) (not really kidding though)
People Ask Me Who Is Your Ideal Now I Could Say Without Any Hesitation... The Genius Sir John Nelson🫡
@@muhammadsuliman3935 well that is very kind of you to say, I’m honored.
@@JohnNelsonMaps Thank You So Much For Being My Inspiration Sir And Look Forward To Learn A Lot From You Sir.
Beautiful
thanks!