Click the image below to download the .kmz file [14.3 mb] for Google Earth:
Terra Ferma means “firm land” or “solid ground” and has been used to describe the conquest of new lands since antiquity.
Terra Fermi is the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Reactor Quilt mapped on to the surface of the earth.
A fitting name for a dangerously beautiful new world.
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The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station (I prefer reactor) was indirectly mentioned in Jenna Johnson’s Washington Post article on Sunday July 22nd, “Google’s View of D.C. Melds New and Sharp, Old and Fuzzy”
Schiller said he thinks Google should just use the 2002 map for the small spots the government has censored rather than the whole downtown area.
And he said he’s puzzled that any level of blurriness is needed by anyone, even the government, especially because he recently took a detailed tour of a nuclear reactor south of Detroit via Google Earth.
“Where is the concept of national security in this?” he asked.
The process I employed to make this geographic tessellation is as follows:
1 ) I took the center 2,500 x 2,500 pixels from the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Reactor Quilt.
2 ) I created a new document that was 10,000 x 7,500 pixels in size
2.1 ) The width = 10,000 / 2,500 = 4 tiles
2.2 ) The height = 7,500 /2,500 = 3 tile
2.3 ) 4 * 3 = 12 tiles
3 ) I pasted 12 tiles into the new document
4 ) I added my mult-directional signature.
5 ) Saved the file
6 ) Opened up Adams Morgan Earth’s KMZ file
7 ) Change the image to the newly saved file
8 ) Renamed the layer and modified the citation
9 ) Saved the new KMZ file
Like the 4-tiled polar coordinate maps I made earlier this year, this map follows suit.
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Terra Fermi’s North/South Pole
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Release Notes:
1) Please be patient! The tessellation is 14 megabytes and will take a moment to download and a moment to load into Google Earth
2) The size of the tessellation might slow down some older computers which might have problems loading a large file
3) The zoom-in capabilities are limited because the file does not contain close-up details
4) It looks best when every other layer has been turned off
5) Read number one again
Related Globes:
- My Weekend in Photos [8/22-8/24]
- Interchangable Earth
- Terra Fermi
- Adams Morgan Earth
- An Interactive Astrological Calendar from 1544 for Google Earth
Related to Google Earth:
- Montpelier Quilt #3
- My Artist Talk At The Old Print Gallery
- Randle Highlands VS Fort Dupont [Antique Overlay of an Anacostia Alternative Future]
- My New York Map Society Presentation at the New York Public Library
- ABSOLUT STATEHOOD
- Featured on-line with the Maps exhibition at the Walters Museum
- Before there was Google Earth, there was Keyhole
- Popular GIS Slideshow by Chris Hammond-Thrasher [March 07]
- Oil Wells in Los Angeles 103 years ago [One Slick Overlay]
- Within Sight of the White House [Overlay of Hooker's Division]
- (Mecca) is now Makkah
- Found Celestial Cartography
- Interchangable Earth
- Terra Fermi
- Adams Morgan Earth
- The Astro-Theological Overlays for Google Earth
- An Interactive Astrological Calendar from 1544 for Google Earth
- 3D Buildings at the expense of newer imagery?
- Google's View of D.C. Melds New and Sharp, Old and Fuzzy - Washington Post
- A new change in Washington, DC's imagery on Google's servers
- DC Area Farmers Markets
- Found Geospatial Art
- Star Series - BETA
- Confluence Project meets Google Earth
- Change in DC imagery in Google's servers
- Baghdad Imagery change in Google Earth
- Google Earth review
- Google Earth is here!
Related to Polar Coordinates:
- A periodic shift in Polar Roses for Valentines Day
- Polar Coordinates of the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri [icositetragon]
- Polar Coordinates of Harvard University [dodecagon]
- Polar Coordinates of the George Washington University [octagon]
- Polar Coordinates of the Super Dome in New Orleans, Louisiana [hexagon]
- Polar Coordinates of Charleston, West Virginia [diamond]
- Polar Coordinates of Austin, Texas [square]
