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Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
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#52National Geographic mural map is pretty decent (but yes, it's heavy on borders) http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
The Earth-toned version looks much nicer IMHO http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
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#53This guy "loves world maps" but chose Mercator for the wall of his room? I guess there's no accounting for taste. There are hundreds of projections to choose from, why choose the one optimized for navigation by compass ?
> I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Unless you're a hipster nerd trying hard to seem sophisticated. In that case, fashion is everything.
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#54"Even when the data quality is great the real challenge for a map service is to decide what they should and should not display. Google does an excellent job in always showing the right amount of information."
I used to work on tile rendering at Google and considerable effort was spent on this. Thank you!
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#55Why do people feel like they can just edit Antarctica out?
At least Antarctica is practically uninhabited.
http://worldmapswithout.nz/ on the other hand...
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#56Back in the day when Google Maps first came out, I got a bit.. obsessed with it. I wrote a bit of code to download map tiles (they had an interesting, recursive spiral indexing scheme) and stitch them into large images, and printed poster-sized satellite imagery on a 4' plotter I should not have had access to at work. Such beautiful imagery..
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Robinson or Winkel-tripel like National Geographic does.
Hammer retroazimuthal, back hemisphere. Which is, coincidentally, also my favorite skateboarding move.
This is really cool looking, and I have no idea what you'd use it for.
And this is just the neatest thing to play with: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/hammer-retroazimuthal/
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#58would be interesting to add 3d depth on it to show mountains height and depths. No idea how that would be done using paper.
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#59National Geographic mural map is pretty decent (but yes, it's heavy on borders) http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
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.
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#60This guy "loves world maps" but chose Mercator for the wall of his room? I guess there's no accounting for taste. There are hundreds of projections to choose from, why choose the one optimized for navigation by compass ?
yeah he should've used the dymaxion with the continuous ocean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File:Dymax...
