No Incandeza, all you did is give me a huge headache because you didn't bother to actually read this thead but simply took .44's post as the latest version when in fact it was the very first. I had resolved these issues long ago. So the sigh was justified and your gratuitous selff-congratulations were not.
Btw:
But having the map turned 180 degrees is a pretty indefensible decision. You're actively impeding recognition under the guise of "confronting players with a view that they're not used to."
What kind of utter crap is this??? I mean really.... I am impeding recognition by rotating the globe 180 degrees? For whom exactly? Have you never seen other representations of the globe that the traditional one with Europe at the top and centre? What can you possibly think this is??? Middle Earth?? Ok I'll stop here otherwise i might say things i will regret. Just please spare me your totally gratuitous and unjustified attacks.
The projection used for this world map, also known as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary. The map began as a sketch,
"The One-Town World" in 1927. "By 1954, after working on the map for several decades," Fuller finally had a "satisfactory deck plan of the six and one half sextillion tons Spaceship Earth."
The Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
Traditional world maps reinforce the elements that separate humanity and fail to highlight the patterns and relationships emerging from the ever evolving and accelerating process of globalization. Instead of serving as "a precise means for seeing the world from the dynamic, cosmic and comprehensive viewpoint," the maps we use still cause humanity to "appear inherently disassociated, remote, self-interestedly preoccupied with the political concept of its got to be you or me; there is not enough for both."
All flat world map representations of the spherical globe contain some amount of distortion either in shape, area, distance or direction measurements. On the well-known Mercator world map, Greenland appears to be three times its relative globe size and Antarctica appears as a long thin white strip along the bottom edge of the map. Even the popular Robinson Projection, now used in many schools, still contains a large amount of area distortion with Greenland appearing 60 percent larger than its relative globe size.
The map projection used for this map, also know as the "Dymaxion Map," was created by R. Buckminster Fuller, distinguished mathematician, inventor and 20th century visionary. It is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
Fuller's view was that given a way to visualize the whole planet with greater accuracy, we humans will be better equipped to address challenges as we face our common future aboard Spaceship Earth.
The word Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth and the Fuller Projection design are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. All rights reserved. Reversing the Transformation: drawing courtesy Pat Chipman.
Dymaxion = Dynamic + Maximum + Tension.
Can we now please stop being so aggressive and negative about all this and move on? After all this is supposed to be fun, not such a pain...
OOOps, is this better ? B&&A M&
Yes I think that someone told me that before. Memory is the first thing to go aye ?
