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

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Post by lazyant » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

National Geographic mural map is pretty decent (but yes, it's heavy on borders) http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...

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

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Post by imaginenore » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

Too bad he chose Mercator projection. Gall–Peters or Robinson would be my choice.

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

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Post by bedatadriven » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

junto wrote: post #25

bedatadriven wrote: post #14

FWIW, a shameless plug for the company where I had my first programming job as a 17 year old: www.marketmaps.com. They will print and ship HUGE maps without a moment's hesitation. Choose a nice world map with a decent projection or send them a PDF and they'll overnight to you :-)

Oddly, they don't seem to have world maps advertised online. Everything else though!

Try here: http://www.mapsales.com/world-wall-maps.aspx

I think marketmaps.com landing page is pretty focused on the US, but they have a pretty extensive catalog, and you could also design your map with QGIS from OSM data and send them the PDF.

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

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Post by detaro » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

kichuku wrote: post #10

Does anyone know how to achieve this for individual states of India? I would like to have huge maps printed for individual states which shows even the big villages.Is this possible? Or atleast can we do this for big cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi?

Look into the openstreetmap based tools mentioned in other comments. They allow to customize a lot about the presentation.

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

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Post by iak8god » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:11 PM UTC

bluedino wrote: post #18

It would kill me to stick pins in something that nice looking.

Ugh, that was my first thought when I got to the end too. After all that work and expense, I was hoping he'd installed a ferromagnetic backing and was going to use tiny magnets as markers.

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

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Post by mreiland » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

I'm wondering why he has a skull for a bookstop :)

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

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Post by imaginenore » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #6

xt wrote: post #5

Very cool. But I was surprised to see he chose Mercator. See: https://xkcd.com/977/

I thought that too, but on the other hand it is not readily apparent where you'd get a good non-mercator map raster.

You can just generate one from OpenStreetMaps

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

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Post by lostfocus » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

iak8god wrote: post #45

bluedino wrote: post #18

It would kill me to stick pins in something that nice looking.

Ugh, that was my first thought when I got to the end too. After all that work and expense, I was hoping he'd installed a ferromagnetic backing and was going to use tiny magnets as markers.

Well, once he killed it with his pins, he can print a new one with a different projection.

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

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Post by zeristor » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:31 PM UTC

Why do people feel like they can just edit Antarctica out?

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

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Post by sesqu » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 1:32 PM UTC

castell wrote: post #19

xt wrote: post #5

Very cool. But I was surprised to see he chose Mercator. See: https://xkcd.com/977/

I thought that too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection Which map projections would you choose? A difficult decision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

Azimuthal equidistant on my house.