You know those bilbords by the side of the road? Theres some pretty big printers out there, that would be an image you'd want for a BIG detailed map!


If your MB can only handle so much memory, rmember that you have virtual memory too, your swapfile takes up whats left after physical memory is filled up.

Maybe someone could get this image and resize it to like 5,000 x 5,000 or something...

Cool find tho!

Jason

There's a 5400x2700 version. The best you'll get with that is 4096x2048 (for a texture size anyway - you'll likely need to split it into pieces if you were to use it. PNG preserves the exact colors. I'd recommend downloading the 5400x2700 image for your game then resizing it to 4096x2048 and splitting that up into 8 1024x1024's to use as textures.

Ever tried "Google Earth"?
The recent Version works quite good. Instead of downloading 3GB and ending up with a nevertheless crapy resolution it streams nothing more than the place you are currently viewing. With terrain as well as extra Info you'll be able to get via various communitys. The freeware Version is capable of most of the things the pro version would offer.
And I don't think 3GB would be enough to save a pic of the whole planet in 0.75 to 5 Meter resolutions.

3GB is definitly not enough to save the whole planet as google earth does.
But what is the point in here?

The link provides varius picture of the whole earth, in every month, for free, and in some very big resolutions if you want a particular place.

If you want a 0.75 to 5 meter resolution picture, get a satelite view!