June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image Editor #32
Chapter 3, Mapping Your World
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commercial use without Robert W. Gray’s explicit permission. Find out
more from his web site, if you happen to want to use
Geo::Dymaxion in a
commercial application. (Changing
Geo::Dymaxion to rely on the VTP’s BSD-
licensed rendition of this code would fix that issue, also.)
Bucky Fuller once wrote, “When I am working on a problem, I never think
about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have
finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” With luck, the
Dymaxion projection—and
Geo::Dymaxion—will help you explore the
world’s many pressing questions, and find solutions that are both beautiful
and right!
See Also
• “Experiment with Different Cartographic Projections” [Hack #28]
• The Buckminster Fuller Institute (http://bfi.org/map.htm)
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#32
Hack on Base Maps in Your Favorite Image
Editor Hack #32
You don’t always have to rely on complicated GIS software to make maps
that tell your story. In fact, sometimes it’s a lot easier not to.
While writing “Plot Arbitrary Points on a World Map” [Hack #29], we had the
chance to explore the flatplanet catalog of free world maps, which can be
found online at http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/. This collection offers
world maps based on satellite imagery, topography, temperature, rainfall,
land use, demographics, plate tectonics, ...
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