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Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map, which is pretty good and similar to this post https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.wikipedia.org
by labrador 4y ago
Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map, which is pretty good and similar to this post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
My brain wasn't rebooted by a map until I saw an "upside down" map with the North pole and South pole vertically flipped. People from the Southern hemisphere seem to think it puts them in a better perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation
- emptyparadise 4y agoI wonder if the Dymaxion map bits can be rearranged to create a more familiar map shape with the distortions mostly getting confined to oceans and unpopulated areas?
- Rediscover 4y agoYes, that was one of the concepts of it. The two most used arrangements are one interconnected body of water at the center, and the other one land mass at the center. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_map_ocean.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_map_ocean... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File%3ADymaxion_projection.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File%3AD...
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- Tagbert 4y agoI remember our 4th grade class (US 1960's) doing a project where we too a printout of that Dymaxion map and constructed a "globe" with it. It was part of a series of geography lessons on different map projections. I guess my brain rebooted a lot then.
- undersuit 4y agoI've wanted to get a mercator map with a 90 degree rotation instead. An "equator-up" orientation?
- mr_toad 4y agoAncient western maps used to be oriented to the east, either for religious reasons or because of the sunrise. The word oriented is derived from the Latin oriens, meaning east.
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