Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
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Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
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Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
#2Cool project.
I'm somewhat surprised that they didn't end up using an Open Street Map derivitive. If Google was good enough, then they'd probably find something from Mapbox or others that use OSM data acceptable, and many provide tools so that "the additional work to custom style the maps would be extraordinary" wouldn't be true.
It's also a bit wierd that the comparison screenshots are all at a different level of zoom from the one's that he wanted to use. Many online maps emphasis different things at different levels.
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#3A very inspiring story of what can be achieved with talent, determination and resourcefulness. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good.
It also makes it very evident how odd it can be to project the surface of a sphere over a flat surface. The distortion of some shapes leaps to the eye.
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#4> I've spent 1,5 years working on this project
So wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a huge display then? :)
Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
#5Very cool. But I was surprised to see he chose Mercator.
Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
#6Very 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.
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#7This 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?
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#8This 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 ?
This was also my first reaction. "Nice Africa-sized Greenland you have there.."
Re: Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
#9This 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 ?
Maybe because he used Google Maps, and they use Mercator?
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#10Does 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?