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And what better way of showing it than a Mercator map!
by landtuna 8y ago
And what better way of showing it than a Mercator map!
- enriquto 8y agoThe maps on the page are not Mercator, but what's the problem with Mercator? It is a perfectly reasonable projection, with some nice properties.
- Freak_NL 8y agoIdeally they'd show a map with a projection based on having the line drawn on it as a straight horizontal or vertical line in the middle of the map. So basically, a Mercator projection with the line being illustrated as its 'equator'. That would require a custom rendering for each line though.
- OscarCunningham 8y agoThey have these illustrations in the paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
- ColinWright 8y agoGiven the length of the line over water, that would be a somewhat bizarre map.
- jsjohnst 8y agoSee page 9/10 of the source paper.
- cookingrobot 8y agoI like this idea, and they're not in the paper. (The paper shows a globe rotated so the paths are straight, but not a flat mercator projected map). It should be possible to make one with this tool: http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/ http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/
- landtuna 8y agoA single map using that projection calls a lot of attention to the quirks of projecting a sphere onto a plane. A different projection or multiple maps centered on segments of the line would call attention to the straight path you'd take as you graze landmasses.
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