Does this mean I can finally see what the earth looks like from the inside out?
Cheers AlanK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars Aronsson Sent: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:12 AM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Geowanking] The future of online map projections First in this article about map projections... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5413010.stm ... I found this reader comment: > It crossed my mind at the end of this article that instead of a > globe, you could have a sheet screen (using the same kind of > tech that the roll-out computer screens in development rely on) > that could deform in real-time. So it could start out quite > severely curved and showing the whole of Europe, and then as you > zoom in, it would flatten out until it was essentially flat at a > local scale. Possible in the next few years, and would certainly > be cool. --Alex, Somerset And just a little later I found this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id= 410642&in_page_id=1770 -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
