The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World Looks Like

Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by tzs on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:11AM (#26044301)

Nowadays most people deal with maps on computers. It should be possible to have a map that stores the underlying map data in 3D and projects it on the fly to your 2D display, using different projections at different scales. Maybe use an area preserving projection when zoomed way out, an angle preserving one when zoomed way in, and some kind of mix in between.

Or maybe even let the user specify what they want preserved and use an appropriate projection.

Are there any computer maps that do this?

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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by bagacrap on Saturday February 06, 2021 @09:27AM (#26046688)

google earth?

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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by candiodari on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:44AM (#26047681)

Google earth simply shows the 3d structure at every zoom level. No projection, and when zoomed out, even on the web, it shows a ball.

Probably not too useful for Navigation of course.

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