[Geowanking] The future of online map projections

[Alan]

Does this mean I can finally see what the earth looks like from the inside
out?

Cheers
AlanK

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Subject: [Geowanking] The future of online map projections


First in this article about map projections...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5413010.stm

... I found this reader comment:

> It crossed my mind at the end of this article that instead of a 
> globe, you could have a sheet screen (using the same kind of 
> tech that the roll-out computer screens in development rely on) 
> that could deform in real-time. So it could start out quite 
> severely curved and showing the whole of Europe, and then as you 
> zoom in, it would flatten out until it was essentially flat at a 
> local scale. Possible in the next few years, and would certainly 
> be cool.   --Alex, Somerset

And just a little later I found this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=
410642&in_page_id=1770



-- 
  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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