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Well, I have to say it, if it hasn't already been said...
There are several things which make a project like this not really worth the time or effort placed into it:
-Projectional distortion - Size, direction, area, and shape are all distorted terribly; in this case, from the middle latitudes to the poles. It's just a result of using a square, flat map of a round Earth. Impossible to do accurately - it's fine for reading maps and taking that distortion into account, but if traveling across greenland and South America take the same time on the map and takes the latter five or six times longer easily on Earth... it's not really Earth...
-X:Y disproportionality - Given 1 block is 1 square mile, Mt. Everest should be 5 blocks high to scale. Otherwise, mountain ranges are 'teepee forests' because they're squashed into a smaller-scaled horizontal space. Neither is fun to think about. They've managed to make this look good, I think, but it would still bug anyone who knows the mountains are way too tall for their surroundings.
If I could make a suggestion for the future... somebody should create an anti-projectional 'warp map', used in conjunction with a map which is a lot more accurate just for land masses, but completely ignores ocean distances and areas - when you swim sufficiently far out to sea, you warp over whole sections of water so that you're exactly where you should be on a round Earth... all you'd need to do, I think, is carefully control the yaw of the teleportation, because that's what's most distorted by switching to a square Earth. Think of Waldseemuller's 1507 'orange peel' map, but consolidating the land area, curving it more.
I also realize part of the convenience of Mercator is that NASA uploads its data maps in that projection, but I think this would be worth an attempt to manipulate those into a more useful shape...
Is there any chance that someone could upload a converted version of this, or point me towards one? I've been trying to convert it to the latest format for 4 hours now, and it's really bogging down my laptop.
Edit: I've given up on converting it, after almost 6 hours. I need the processing power for porn.
Remember when I said that the Great Salt Lake wasn't on the map? I may have figured out why. By looking at both Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea, I noticed they were smaller than shown on map, and correlating that with altitude, I figured that the shallower parts of lakes are rounded to the nearest height, and if such, corresponds to a land block instead.
As for the Great Salt Lake, it's not at all too deep, as its deepest point is 10 feet, so no wonder it got left out.
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Click the above image for science! Some people think it's a scam. But it's not. Why else would I put this in my sig?
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door is by far the world's best Nintendo game ever made.
Do you want a cookie? Yes:
I am currently working on a 1:1000 map so 1 block will be 1km there.
Still waiting on Bukkit, Yotan?
Read the server topic i awnsered you there.
Sometimes I dream of CHEESE.
HOW MUCH TIME DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS!?
how....when....who...
somebody get on the phone, tell him to add a new world generation choice called "Planet Earth"
p.s nice job by-the-way keep it up...
i wonder if someone will turn it into a adventure map? (hint-hint)
There are several things which make a project like this not really worth the time or effort placed into it:
-Projectional distortion - Size, direction, area, and shape are all distorted terribly; in this case, from the middle latitudes to the poles. It's just a result of using a square, flat map of a round Earth. Impossible to do accurately - it's fine for reading maps and taking that distortion into account, but if traveling across greenland and South America take the same time on the map and takes the latter five or six times longer easily on Earth... it's not really Earth...
-X:Y disproportionality - Given 1 block is 1 square mile, Mt. Everest should be 5 blocks high to scale. Otherwise, mountain ranges are 'teepee forests' because they're squashed into a smaller-scaled horizontal space. Neither is fun to think about. They've managed to make this look good, I think, but it would still bug anyone who knows the mountains are way too tall for their surroundings.
If I could make a suggestion for the future... somebody should create an anti-projectional 'warp map', used in conjunction with a map which is a lot more accurate just for land masses, but completely ignores ocean distances and areas - when you swim sufficiently far out to sea, you warp over whole sections of water so that you're exactly where you should be on a round Earth... all you'd need to do, I think, is carefully control the yaw of the teleportation, because that's what's most distorted by switching to a square Earth. Think of Waldseemuller's 1507 'orange peel' map, but consolidating the land area, curving it more.
I also realize part of the convenience of Mercator is that NASA uploads its data maps in that projection, but I think this would be worth an attempt to manipulate those into a more useful shape...
Edit: I've given up on converting it, after almost 6 hours. I need the processing power
for porn.Eᴠᴇʀʏ 60 sᴇᴄᴏɴᴅs ɪɴ Aғʀɪᴄᴀ, ᴀ ᴍɪɴᴜᴛᴇ ᴘᴀssᴇs. Tᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ ᴡᴇ ᴄᴀɴ sᴛᴏᴘ ᴛʜɪs. Pʟᴇᴀsᴇ sᴘʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅ
Please tell me how I can get this to work, what mods I may need, and what other programs could help.
Thank you,
GlowingBird
As for the Great Salt Lake, it's not at all too deep, as its deepest point is 10 feet, so no wonder it got left out.
If you're non-human, you clearly and naturally underestimate us.
How am I supposed to describe this map.....
If its as good as minecraft itself.
http://web.archive.o...s/d/EarthSSP.7z
Thank you so much