Is there a way to turn satellite photos into something like line art?

[Scott_R]

I have a sprinkler system with quite a few zones. Inevitable, heads get overgrown or otherwise lost.

A few years ago I hit upon taking Google satellite views of my property, dividing them into zoomed-in sections, and mapping exactly where the heads are, measuring them X and Y feet from easily found landmarks.

The problem with this is that it's hard to see when printed out i.e., when I'm walking around with them--the satellite pics are too complex for a b&w laser printer to show well, plus I waste a lot of toner printing unneeded greyscale.

Is there a way, other than manually tracing, to convert this to black (out)lines on a white background?

I currently Affinity Photo & Designer.

[NotMyFault]

It depends on the actual satellite images what work best.

you can simply use edge detection, brighten the image inside Affinity, or any of the auto tracer / vector tools outside Affinity apps.

Can you share one example satellite Image (not your location, but must be similar in tones and overall structure)?

maps to outlne.afphoto

[Scott_R]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

It depends on the actual satellite images what work best.

you can simply use edge detection, brighten the image inside Affinity, or any of the auto tracer / vector tools outside Affinity apps.

Thanks; that helped a lot. I loaded the picture into Photo, applied Detect Edges, then Layer>Invert. Detect edges gave me a black image with white lines, and Invert made that a white image with black lines.