How to Make this 3D Diorama of the Straits of Mackinac

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Here's how to make a 3D diorama micro world sort of thing for the Straits of Mackinac. Plus a little bit of Nelson nostalgia thrown in!
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Here's the World Imagery Wayback app to get archived versions of the imagery basemap: livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback
Source elevation/bathymetry data from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab: www.glerl.noaa.gov/
Michigan GIS data portal: gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis....
This demo is an extract from a presentation given at the IMAGIN annual conference of lovely Michigan map nerds. imagin.org/
More work from Tau Rho Alpha: www.davidrumsey.com/luna/serv...
00:00 Intro examples
00:24 Nelson nostalgia and diorama intro
02:08 Finding and clipping an elevation model
3:10 Lets go 3D!
4:16 Finding better archived imagery
5:04 Hillshade!
5:29 Water and watery effects
8:38 Arranging a layout and perspective
9:14 Drawing and styling the dirt curtains
11:34 Sneaking in an easter egg
12:48 Labels and title
14:07 Adding a locator map
Check out some other social channels where I share how-to's and updates on random map adventures:
adventuresinmapping.com
www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/auth...
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@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

I've done a bit of thinking about these things and why they make our brains happy. Read about that here: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/how-to-make-this-3d-diorama-of-the-straits-of-mackinac/

@ivanmlai5665 Жыл бұрын

YOUR ABILITY TO CONCEIVE AND HOW TO TRANSMIT IT IS REALLY AMAZING. I AM A FAITHFUL FOLLOWER OF SUCH EXCELLENT CONTENT, GREETINGS FROM COLOMBIA!!!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@aroldorocha1795 Ай бұрын

Magnífic, master John! Thanks for inspire us...🖖

@JohnNelsonMaps Ай бұрын

thank you Aroldo!

@JonathanPerez-ms4qs Жыл бұрын

You definitely make me love GIS, arcgis and all cartografy world, cheers of a geological engineer from Colombia, I will do this when I have a arcgis pro license 🤞🏻

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

That’s very kind of you to say!

@MapWithPurpose 2 ай бұрын

John, you are a map magician! Trying out this technique today!

@JohnNelsonMaps 2 ай бұрын

wonderful! keep me posted

@ceciliapalacio3642 Жыл бұрын

Sos un genio John, me encantan tus trabajos! Gracias por compartir.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

¡gracias por sus amables palabras! Tengo la suerte de haber encontrado una profesión tan divertida. te deseo lo mejor.

@Luxrayspirit Жыл бұрын

This is such a cool tutorial but the little bit about dynamic text for the service layer credits is truly life changing, even if it's the least impressive looking trick in the video

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

That text used to drive me insane!

@Lithium_82 Жыл бұрын

I love this channel. You really have a way of displaying the creative limits that you can push in arc.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@tonyjoffre2909 Жыл бұрын

Omg I came to your channel to ask a question and I'm been watching videos for 30 minutes.... Your a rabbit hole.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Hey, great!

@yjsfjjsnsjtsr Жыл бұрын

Awesome work John. Thank you.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@cadencechen1962 Жыл бұрын

Amazing as always!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thank you Cadence!

@albertodiniz2543 Жыл бұрын

John, I write from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thank you very much for all your content, I share your videos and maps and everyone who sees them is in love. Thanks a thousand times!!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thank you Alberto for your kind words! I sure appreciate the encouragement.

@beamishjames Жыл бұрын

That is insane... Can't wait to try it, thanks for the great vids!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thanks Beamer!

6 ай бұрын

You’re an artist 😮!!! Thanks for sharing!! I loved it!!

@JohnNelsonMaps 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Julieth!

@maxouph212 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Good stuff. Thank you! I need to try this next to the Canadian Shield

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thanks Maxime! I’d love to see what you make if you try this.

@ChristopherArchuleta Ай бұрын

Love the Easter egg!

@JohnNelsonMaps Ай бұрын

Lots of eggs around here!

@estonspain6314 11 ай бұрын

Very nice work, John!

@JohnNelsonMaps 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Eston!

@mlsauron Жыл бұрын

I think I'll just quit watching movies and would spend my free time with the creativity of mr. John. I will definitely use some ideas right tomorrow.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Alright! Thanks!

@asaadyahya184 Жыл бұрын

What an awesome cartography. Wizard

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Ha, thanks!

@davidfairchild8566 11 ай бұрын

This is awesome!

@JohnNelsonMaps 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ethenjones4533 Жыл бұрын

Very inspiring as always! I can't wait to try something like this in the near future. (and I just recently found Blacktail Studio myself, so I sympathize with you there)

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@alvarosalazar1156 Жыл бұрын

Hey John, I have run into your channel and is wonderful what you can do with ArcGis pro. Impressive! Thank you so much for sharing

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thanks much, Alvaro!

@dalienware668 Жыл бұрын

Next level!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Ahmedali_-qd9eg Жыл бұрын

Cool, you are really maps artist.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Hey thank you!

@douglasbriske8332 4 ай бұрын

Devonian? haha great video John!

@JohnNelsonMaps 4 ай бұрын

thanks!

@husiyuan930517 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff as always! The end-product you and I are producing using the same software is completely different in quality. Jealous of your mastery of GIS 🙂

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thanks! but it's all possible, and fun to find out ways of flexing Pro in unexpected ways.

@AbdelrazekElnashar 6 ай бұрын

Really, it is nice.

@JohnNelsonMaps 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@friegawan 9 ай бұрын

Nice

@JohnNelsonMaps 9 ай бұрын

thanks!

@reinaldo_GC Жыл бұрын

Amazing and didactic video, you make it look so easy and funny. I want to give you an idea for a future video video, if you could make a diorama from a geological cross section. I mean, from a geological map (with the beautiful aesthetic you give to polygons), create an A-A' profile and then visualize the geological polygons that section A-A' cuts in an X-Y plane, similar to a slice of a cake :D :D :D

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thanks! yes, geologic profiles are the best use case for this sort of thing. thanks for the encouragement!

@Aztariel_chan Жыл бұрын

Im from Panamá Canal City and i love this, thanks for share this. When i make it some map, i want show u.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

i would love to see it!

@pankaj_2 Жыл бұрын

Your parents were awesome and cool map

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you.

@user-tg4xe7iq8t Жыл бұрын

Master please accept my respect 🙏

@joeflannery Жыл бұрын

John, you make it look so easy and I love how you show us the power of ArcGIS Pro. This particular project of yours attracted me, because my father grew up in Petoskey, MI. I have traveled over the Mackinac Bridge many times and each one is always a thrill. By the way, did you mean "Devonian" when you said and labeled "Denovian" (I have a BS and MS in Geology)?

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thanks Joe! I love Petoskey! Shoot, yes it should say Devonian. Typical of me to have a typo, I can’t avoid them!

@jaquiring Жыл бұрын

This looks similar to a map I’ve been working on and got some ideas from your video. I want to show the projected change of sea level for 2100 with an elevated sea level in 3d and highlight the area of land between sea level today and 2100 projections. I’d love to see how you would do this!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Please do! I’m working with a team on a web mapping project like this. It’s 2D though

@adamjvogt Жыл бұрын

Have you found a way to automate the tracing you do of the diagram at 9:23?

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

You might like the workflow used by my colleague Craig McCabe here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e9e13b5c33c54be79b55c771828760f8

@NoelPetersonHK Жыл бұрын

John Nelson is a national treasure

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

ha! i'll settle for "local troublemaker". thanks Noel.

@niajones4704 Жыл бұрын

This is great and really inspiring. How did you get the water texture to have a transparent background? Thanks!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

I did that in photoshop but you can make an image semitransparent in any image editor you like. Even PowerPoint

@dustinferguson9393 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, John! I was wondering if you knew what would be the best material to print this 3D Diorama on? Thanks!

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

thanks Dustin! sorry, i don't know much about 3D printing!

@user-mc7eh6sj2h 9 ай бұрын

Thanks as always for your amazing tutorials, John! You are such an inspiration! For some reason, when I add the imagery basemap, it goes far beyond my DEM unlike the one in yours. Why do you think this is/how can I avoid that?

@JohnNelsonMaps 9 ай бұрын

thanks so much, Chiara! hmm, i think it's possible you are making a Global 3D scene, instead of a Local 3D scene. i've noticed that the Local 3D clips everything outside of its elevation source but the Global 3D will still show it. let me know if that's the case, either way.

@tonyjoffre2909 Жыл бұрын

I fall asleep watching the same videos 😂

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure how I feel about it, but they sure are great videos!

@maryamkhan3631 Жыл бұрын

Hey John! Can you guide about animated fill symbology in 3d Scene, particularly of water

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

hello! here is a video someone made showing how to do this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZyTgtagnc6diZc.html

@markjohnmiller 6 ай бұрын

Amazing Videos! I am really enjoying learning about how to create these effects for myself. I am wondering however if you can help me as I keep getting an error for Extract by Mask as well as when I try to Mosaic images together following your other video. I keep getting Error 999999 which tells me to contact ESRI. Any ideas? I have reached out to my contact at ESRI but they say it is not a license issue.

@JohnNelsonMaps 6 ай бұрын

Oh no, I’m sorry to hear about this inconvenience. The 999999 error is, to my knowledge, the generic name for an unspecified error. Pro doesn’t know what went wrong so there’s no prepared message for troubleshooting. Do you get it every time or intermittently?

@markjohnmiller 6 ай бұрын

@@JohnNelsonMaps Thanks for the reply! I was able to figure it out. It was happening every time a new layer / file would be created. The error was because I am using Parallels to run Pro on a Mac and was trying to save to the "Mac" portion of the drive.... Pro didn't like that at all.

@tooyoul1682 Жыл бұрын

How to download hydrography shapefile, please?

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

here is the link: gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/midnr::hydrography-polygons/explore?location=44.865124%2C-86.287400%2C7.45

@cityluver 2 ай бұрын

At timestamp 3:48 there is a copy and paste of the Extract by Mask DEM and one is dropped onto the ground level. But mine does not show up. If I turned everything on, it would show a blank white space where it should be. I'm having troubleshooting. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated TY.

@JohnNelsonMaps 2 ай бұрын

if you can find my email address (its at www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/author/j_nelson/) then email me and maybe we can figure it out.

@cityluver 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnNelsonMaps Hi John. I emailed you on the 16th but no reply as of yet. I hope you got it. From RM.Julian

@AndrewTernes 5 ай бұрын

Is there a way to export these to format that can be 3D printed.

@JohnNelsonMaps 5 ай бұрын

i wouldn't do it this way. instead, you consider exporting an elevation model as a gray-scale image and use a 3rd party tool to convert the image to an STL file.

@AndrewTernes 5 ай бұрын

@@JohnNelsonMaps Thanks for the reply. You make fantastic informative videos. I’m now a keen follower. I had hoped there would be an easier way to get a colour model out ESRI. I have had success with some full colour 3d prints using blender and the 3d printing service shapeways. If you like I can send you my article and some image examples.

@taradurham3557 Жыл бұрын

What’s the name of the first cartographer you mention?

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

Tau Rho Alpha csunshinetoday.csun.edu/science-and-technology/mapping-a-gift-alumnus-and-cartography-legend-gives-back-to-dres/

@taradurham3557 Жыл бұрын

👍🏼 Thanks for the videos

@chrome-o-some3380 5 ай бұрын

is it possible to print such a diarama on a 3d printer?

@JohnNelsonMaps 5 ай бұрын

That’s a tall order for Pro, currently. But it can be done if you export your elevation image and then use another tool to convert it into a format compatible with 3D printing

@garthhoxsie-quinn7906 7 ай бұрын

Never take things for granite!

@aaronhpa Жыл бұрын

You could have created the bridge in 3D model quite easily

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

not as easily as drawing three rectangles! at this scale, good enough is good enough.

@Georgy_47 3 ай бұрын

how is this free ?

@JohnNelsonMaps 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Smilingotter Жыл бұрын

I would have loved this even without the "Kung Fury" nod.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

“I hacked the computer”

@castlebyastream Жыл бұрын

Hi! Any chance I could get a little more advice about how to get that geotiff.tar.gz file into ArcGIS Pro? I'd like to try to copy your version of this tutorial before trying it for my own study area, as an intermediate GIS student.

@JohnNelsonMaps Жыл бұрын

I used 7zip. It’s free