I had a similar thought a couple of weeks ago when I tried to find my
way using the map on the small screen of my hand held gps. Afterwards,
Rob Annable told me about Bendy Maps (see http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
for an example). It's not exactly what I had in mind but still very cool :-)
This would indeed be possible with current tiles - take a look at
http://maps.cartifact.com/ - it is built with Flash, but you could
easily build it with JS, too.
Christoph Boehme schrieb:
I had a similar thought a couple of weeks ago when I tried to find my
way using the map on the small
Most maps of small areas have a constant scale: eg: 100 pixels = 1 mile.
Has anyone created maps w/ variable scales?
An example would be: 100 pixels = 1 mile at the edge of the map, but
100 pixels = 100 feet at the center of the map.
This would be useful for driving directions type maps, where
I believe Kelly was interested in static maps (eg paper maps) that
cannot be re-rendered every second.
Instead of providing map insets with higher detail it would be
interesting to have a fisheye style map, which would cover large
areas, but still provide high details in the centre or some other
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