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user-inactivated  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DIYski! Lasercutting my own desk

Looks great.

Also, this might be the only side-independent way of portraying Earth's geography as a design element. Do a straight cylindrical projection, and it turns one-sided.





am_Unition  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That projection is very distorted in terms of representing equal areas for features near the poles vs. near the equator. Veen's mapping is most distorted for the longitudes furthest from the center of the map, among other things.

Any way you map the features of spherical shell to a flat surface, it'll never be perfect. Curivilinear coordinates are like food poisoning to most. It's nobody's fault.

Hey, in other news, I heard that the flat-Earthers have gone global.

user-inactivated  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wasn't talking the quality of projection.

Imagine putting a map onto a surface - say, the top of the laptop. When it's closed and facing you (as in, South America at the bottom), it looks fine. When it's open, to the outside observer it's inverted vertically. Not good. Reverse the positioning, and you get the reverse reactions.

In other words, a design concern rather than cartography's.

am_Unition  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Veen more than dabbles in what I would call "conceptual cartography", and I love it.

veen  ·  2743 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Conceptual cartographer...now that's something I'd want to put on a business card.