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Robinson or Winkel-tripel like National Geographic does.
Hammer retroazimuthal, back hemisphere. Which is, coincidentally, also my favorite skateboarding move.
"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/
> [...] the real challenge for a map service is to decide what they should and should not display. Google does an excellent job [...]
"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 get the impression he's not just talking about coloring, but also about what labels to show, how to space and lay them out, etc. He mentions this explicitly: > [...] the real challenge for a map service is to decide what they should and should not display. Google does an excellent job [...]
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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.
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>The Mercator projection was indeed originally designed for compass navigation, but the reason it's still used for web mapping is slightly different. The Mercator projection is conformal. Just speculating here, but it's also a big rectangle that is easy on the eyes. Non-rectangular online maps would fit awkwardly in websites. As for Gall-Peters, that map is just irredeemably ugly to me, and I'm ignorant of other rect…
Yes, absolutely! The Mercator projection isn't the only conformal projection, but it is the only one for which north-south maps to the vertical axis, and east-west to the horizontal axis. That means that it maps the whole world onto a rectangle, which works well both for computers and interior decorating. As for other rectangular projections, the most common is the equirectangular (or plate carrée), which simply maps…
However, online maps alter the projection as you zoom so this is not much of an issue.
Notes about projection choice seem to prevail, which is nerdy. Well, 400 euros for a wall map seems like a lot of money, but what isn't described very well is how the source file was created. It seems like the guy was manually stitching screenshots. God knows how much time did this take. There's little to no hacking in this project. Just the bit where he makes something custom.
Well the whole damn map/project was custom. Seems as the same amount of "hacking" as most posts in this sub, except this was not made inside a computer.
Notes about projection choice seem to prevail, which is nerdy. Well, 400 euros for a wall map seems like a lot of money, but what isn't described very well is how the source file was created. It seems like the guy was manually stitching screenshots. God knows how much time did this take. There's little to no hacking in this project. Just the bit where he makes something custom.
would be interesting to add 3d depth on it to show mountains height and depths. No idea how that would be done using paper.
Results look amazing [2][3]
Would probably be quite heavy.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated_object_manufacturing
[2] http://www.gizmag.com/mcor-iris-paper-3d-printer/32903/pictu...
[3] http://www.gizmag.com/mcor-iris-paper-3d-printer/32903/pictu...
If I were printing all that blue ink, I'd want ocean trenches to stand out in the same way that the mountain ranges do :)