Here's a story about 1:1 mapping:

"""
On Exactitude in Science . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography
attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied
the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a
Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and
the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was
that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The
following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of
Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was
Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered
it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the
West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by
Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the
Disciplines of Geography.

Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
>From Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew
Hurley Copyright Penguin 1999 .
"""

-B

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote:
> the arrival of viewfinder AR (augmented reality) is opening lots of
> opportunities for near field  focal plane maps of very dense local data.
>
> e.g. "show me labels, links, annotations and attributes for things and
> places in my field of view"
>
> is 1:1 scale mapping a reasonable idea?
>
> can anyone here share pointers or stories about 1:1 scale mapping and why
> the idea has generated ridicule in the past?
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> ???
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