This map is so great — it puts New Zealand near the centre of the world, rather than falling off the edge (or not appearing at all).
a projection centered around Antarctica to emphasize the role of the oceans
This map is so great — it puts New Zealand near the centre of the world, rather than falling off the edge (or not appearing at all).
a projection centered around Antarctica to emphasize the role of the oceans
@Miraz That is really cool. Also, Oregon looks a lot closer to New Zealand in this representation.
@Miraz Oh wait, never mind. That's Hawai'i. 🤦♀️
Going to bed now, before @kimonostereo reads this...
@macgenie 😀 Yup. Pretty close. Hawai’i is only a roughly 12 hour flight away…
@Miraz Amazing! I wonder if there is a way to put some sort of edge to the projection though? Right now it just bleeds into the background.
@Bruce That’s something to ask the creators. Looks to me like an edge wouldn’t work as it needs to wrap around really.
@Miraz I'm thinking of an edge like in a Goode homolosine projection. One's that's not a regular shape, but suggests the edges that would meet if the map were wrapped into a sphere.
@Miraz Oh, I just knew there was a map with weird edges and stumbled around Wikipedia until I found it. 🙃