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I don't exactly get this argument. It is not only about what you see on screen, I was talking about geographic operations like spatial queries being executed on
by billfruit 6y ago
I don't exactly get this argument. It is not only about what you see on screen, I was talking about geographic operations like spatial queries being executed on the globe rather than on a projected 2d surface.
- growlist 6y ago> spatial queries being executed on the globe But it's perfectly possible to create geodesically-correct buffers, for example - such as you might see when calculating ballistic missile range over thousands of kilometres - in a 2D projection, and indeed this has been available for decades. And we have plenty of global models, such as WGS 84: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System So what exactly are you talking about?
- billfruit 6y agoSo do you think there is no benefit if we can avoid projections entirely? Also won't using 3d make working with great-circle paths easier?