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George says he found a contour map generator tool that could help connect photography with background graphics and line work assets for the website. He explains that he uses the tool to pick a location, generate contour data, and download an SVG that he can bring into a design file. George also says he will share the link to the tool and this video with Casey and Stephanie.
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[00:00] Hello, hello. So this is mostly for Casey, but Stephanie, I know you like random computer stuff as well, so enjoy.
[00:10] But basically, following up on some of the line work stuff, right? So I'm putting together some of the assets that go on the website, which I'll show you guys in half hour-ish.
[00:20] But I came across this tool, which I thought might be really helpful, Casey, especially as you're developing some of the other line work graphics. So I thought it would be cool to kind of find a connection between some of the photography and the background graphics.
[00:30] So I did my best to kind of figure out where these were taken, a handful of the photos, and then wanted to kind of find them and generate topos based on that.
[00:40] So for example, this one here is in Denali National Park, at least I think. And there's a road that goes about like that, kind of around, sort of follows that, hugs this mountain here.
[00:50] And then the mountains themselves are over here. So I wanted to be able to kind of like connect those two things.
[01:00] This one is actually of Phoenix at Mesa and Gilbert are here, flat, as you can see. And then this is Tonto National Forest, actually sloping down with some of the views that are sticking out.
[01:10] So like this is one of the other spots that Czar had one of the marathons.
[01:20] So the tool is this goofy contour map generator tool. I literally found it via Google search, but I'll share the link with you.
[01:30] But basically what you do is you sort of find where you want. So let's do like something fun like Shiprock. Where is it?
[01:40] There it is. And then we can, you know, basically like make a box around it. And then you hit this little get data button.
[01:50] And I think this is probably from USGS or Arc. It's using ArcGIS, but I don't know where exactly all that's coming from. Maybe OpenStreetMap.
[02:00] But let's see. Usually it goes faster than this. Okay. So you can see like there's the contour. There's the little piece sticking up. And then I changed it to like 20.
[02:10] And then it can redraw, but you can obviously make it as many as you want. And then down below, it lets you download an SVG. All right. So you like download that. And then if I pop over to my design file, I basically just take this and drag it in.
[02:20] And then, you know, ungroup it. And I also now have the line work for that, you know, that topo.
[02:30] So I was just setting it to just give me like one color or whatever.
[02:40] All of a sudden, you can kind of see how the thing's mapped out. Obviously, that's pretty poor mapping, but you get the idea. Pretty cool. So, yeah, so I figured I would share that. I'll drop a link in as well with this video.
