Not to be a wet noodle on the cerebral art explanation or ignore the technical discussion, both of which were interesting, but as an extremely practical matter

Not to be a wet noodle on the cerebral art explanation or ignore the technical discussion, both of which were interesting, but as an extremely practical matter a former coworker of mine had a life goal to row a boat around the perimeter of Lake Superior (a little bigger, and to the north) and this linearized map is kinda what he saw, which is both cool and would be an interesting way to document his photos and stories and it might have been a useful navigational tool for him, if zoomed in to human scale. And no he didn't live in his boat and do it in one trip, it took him years (decades?) of his life. He'd do city B to city C on one vacation and city C to city D on some weekend etc. Social media photo sharing sites are kind of "done" as a startup idea (or are they?) but I could see something like this, generalized to work on cars, planes, and bikes, being kinda popular to scroll and zoom thru someones trip photos as an unusual kind of map display. Maybe for navigation apps, scroll along a long line...