speaking of which... http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/exhibits/mapparium.jhtml
Ian White :: Urban Mapping, Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 T 415.946.8170 :: F 866.385.8266 :: www.urbanmapping.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:39:36 PM GMT-0800 US/Pacific Subject: RE: [Geowanking] The future of online map projections Does this mean I can finally see what the earth looks like from the inside out? Cheers AlanK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars Aronsson Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:12 AM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
