2009/4/24 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio <jldoming...@prodevelop.es>: > At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and > Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other countries > on the same screen. At these deep zoom levels, the difference in > scale between the top and bottom of the screen is also small.
They don't look large, but they do looked stretched, ie the wrong shape. 100 Pixels East West is NOT the same distance as 100 pixels North South. It also makes the scale pointless as you need one for North-South and a different for East-West. I think we ought to be able to do a projection where we turn the globe into a symmetrical regular polyhedra. In effect at zoom level zoom level 1 the world is a tetrahedron, as you go up you add more equilateral triangles. while keeping your angles the same. At each higher zoom level each triangular faces is split into 3 triangles. creating what gets closer and closer to a globe. Same way as some footballs are made up of hexagons...... Just a thought. Peter. _______________________________________________ Please pay attention when you quote. I didnt write that. Regards. Juan Lucas
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