I spent a few days making that map, hope you like it – “Portrait of a blue planet” [OC]

    by mydriase

    11 Comments

    1. “Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot, Blue Planet… it seems obvious: our Earth is, above all, blue. With 70.8% of its surface covered by water, this water represents only a millionth of the mass of the observable universe. Seen this way, the planet almost seems to be showing us its back, so accustomed are we to seeing it from the “continent” side, populated by billions of humans. Here, at most, only a few tens of millions of humans, but plenty of water, forming part of the vast global ocean—a complex machinery that enables life on Earth in countless ways. This is the portrait of a blue planet.”

      More maps on my [website](https://www.perrinremonte.com/fraccueil-1)! (not smarphone friendly)

      Data: GEBCO, NOAA

      Tools: QGIS, Adobe Illustrator

    2. Kind of strange seeing something great here and not some slobbered together trash with weird colors or just a link to shitty website.

      Nice.

    3. PM_ME_UR_EYEBALL on

      This reminds me of those eyewitness books I used to love as a kid. Great work

    4. MyPenisSpeaksChinese on

      Lovely work! Just one thing, it’s the *Orinoco* River, not ‘Orinico’.

      Edit: pretty sure there’s also only one S in Yenisei.

    5. Betray-Julia on

      I don’t know what they are called, but these remind me a lot of those info books on space and oceans and machines and buildings and geography from my childhood circa 90s.

    6. Amazing! Can you describe your general workflow for making a map like this? What software/tools did you use etc? I’d like to learn 😁

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