Greetings, I am looking for a hi-res bump map of the entire earth's topography, undersea as well as on land. You know how in textbooks and such they show you those images of the terrain under the oceans and you can see the continental shelves, the mid-ocean ridges, the deep trenches; all that? I'd like to find a grayscale height map of those features.      To head off one misdirection right now I've found references to a site called "www.space-graphics.com" but it has been taken over by something called "PLMetro.Info". (And how does that happen that an address like that gets you to a site that has nothing to do with what you are looking for?) At any rate, I already have some of the maps from that old space-graphics.com site and they didn't have a below the ocean height map that I know of. -- Jeff in Arkansas

You could try an oceanographic institute somewhere maybe? I'd also try this address, as he might be able to point you in the right direction:- http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.html
As for the website going AWOL, it happens more times than you'd think. If a company or person stops using and closes their website, if it has cool name web companies will buy the domain name (or just acquire the unused page name, I think...;)

Start here, NASA's Blue Marble. Large resolution maps for download. Sniff around everywhere.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html

Yeah Nasa's site is the best place Agent

WOW!!!! Some of those images are 1.34 GB!!!!  Now thats what I call a texture :)  I wonder how bryce would render one of those :)

Just download a lower res image, they usually offer smaller sizes, but they still render out well:-)

I knew I could count on you guys. I think those will work nicely for what I hope to work on. I will post something here pretty soon. I try a couple of test renders and add some coloration to some of the maps.

I got a 500mb Blue Marble texture into Bryce once.
Once.
Never again, lol.

That Blue Marble site is fantastic - I have plans for these! Does anybody know where I can get similar resolution clouds from though? putting 2048x1024 clouds over Blue Marble images looks rubbish :sad:

they used to have 8K cloudmaps at bluemarble i think :-s
lemme see if i can find them somewhere else. i'll be back with a link!

http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/#cloud   <-- cloud textures! really high res ;-)

http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/earthcloud.php <-- lots of handy cloud-related texturemaps in multiple resolutions (includin really high ones)

Rayraz you are a legend! Thanks!

hrm - anyone know a way of converting .dds to .jpg, or willing to do it for me? My GIMP plug-in is having none of it :cursing:

thre's a 4K png in there, that should suffice. If it doesnt come with transparancy greyscaling it and editing levels should suffice to make a transmap outta it i think...

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=2432   <-- cloud maps

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=1438  <-- city light maps

4k png.... so there is!! That will do nicely. Thanks for the other links too - off to check them out!