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

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! Colorful 3D mountain diorama: https://youtu.be/kVsj6Z7UuLY Undersea 3D diorama: https://youtu.be/ehJhR3lgjNw Fake 3D atmosphere : https://youtu.be/g7eS2K2lGCg Here's the World Imagery Wayback app to get archived versions of the imagery basemap: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback Source elevation/bathymetry data from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab: https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/ Michigan GIS data portal: https://gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/ This demo is an extract from a presentation given at the IMAGIN annual conference of lovely Michigan map nerds. https://imagin.org/ More work from Tau Rho Alpha: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Alpha%252C%2BTau%2BRho/what/Geology/ 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: http://adventuresinmapping.com https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/author/j_nelson/ https://twitter.com/John_M_Nelson https://www.instagram.com/johnmnelson/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmnelson/