Awesome community!
I need your help. I’ve been playing with an idea for a while and this weekend I want to get it started 
The goal is to 3D print a World Map, about 2m wide. The idea is to have actual elevation represented and print it like a puzzle, with each piece being a country / state. It will take me about 250 printed pieces I expect which on average should fit my printers.
My question:
Does anybody know, can help me, with translating a world map into different .stl files per country/state, with the actual elevations represented in the files? Has this already been done before maybe?
I’ve seen similar concepts like this one: World Map by toddsplod67 - Thingiverse, but I’m aiming to have this per country and on a larger scale.
Help is much appreciated.
Cheers!
Filemon
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Hi,
I would be interested in helping you out. Looks like a great idea.
You can use this to generate STL files from Googlemaps Terrain2STL
Let me know if you need help printing
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This is a nice tool! I actually wanted to print my own country like that, however this tool doesn’t really allow to generate it as bis as a country (even a really small one). You can do cities for sure tho!
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Thanks, any idea for the first step? Creating the files?
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For the Netherlands this would be tricky , since most of u live below NAP!
Cinter
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@meatcurry this is awesome, I’m guessing they are using the Google Elevation API. I guess my question is, do you know how to convert data from an API into a .stl? Apologies if this is a stupid question but I’ve done a lot of googling and this could provide cool data sources for physical IOT products, something that 3D printing offers perfect capability for!
Hi I’ve used http://jthatch.com/terrain2stl/ as well, and got some great results see
the only problem with this program is the size of the area you can convert, otherwise it’s great
