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Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

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Post by jacobolus »

Mtinie wrote: post #90
Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #15

"OpenStreetMap... the additional work to custom style the maps would be extraordinary" It absolutely wouldn't. Download TileMill or its successor, Mapbox Studio. Adjust the (Carto)CSS. Done. Though for a map of this scale I'd probably work straight from Natural Earth[1] without involving OSM, to be honest. Looks great, anyway. [1] http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

I'll be honest, I never really gave a lot of thought to whether or not I'm a "map lover" until this HN topic appeared in my feed, but your comment hooked me in... ...so much for this morning's priorities. /sigh If you're familiar with the Natural Earth data set, do you know if it is possible to apply a transformation so a map could be printed of the World using the Cahill or Waterman projection? I can envision a stri…

You should put your email address in your HN profile, so people can contact you. :-)

Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

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Post by therealdrag0 »

raimondious wrote: post #59
davegardner wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Earth-toned version looks much nicer IMHO http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...

Seeing what he ended up with, I don't think he would have been happy with how much of these maps are graphic design, not map.

I think also the lack of smaller cities.

Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

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Post by kragen »

kens wrote: post #82

I can't believe how negative the comments are here, criticizing the projection. I don't really like the term "middlebrow dismissal" but it seems to apply. As an aside, have you looked closely at Greenland on a globe? It looks all wrong - long and skinny like someone messed up the aspect ratio.

I haven’t contributed to those comment threads, but I have found them much more interesting to read than the original article, regardless of the putative quantity of neocortex supporting their authors’ brows.
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