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Any mapping projects to which aim to “Cubify” the globe?

"Fig. 7. The cubed sphere grid mapping maps the six faces of a cube to the surface of a sphere. The specific mapping shown here is non-orthogonal and generates a grid that varies less than 30% in grid cell area." alt text

For my purposes, I am looking for tile data based on this type of model/projection. A: Does a project like this exist? B: If it does not exist, is anyone interested in working on this projection with me? For my own opensource project, I wish to create just the cube seeing as I am rendering square tiles.

sphere globe cube projection maps

asked 06 Mar '13, 17:02

Akiva
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Do you have a source for that? I've seen something similar as an art project here: http://flowingdata.com/2013/03/08/the-world-as-one-city/

(10 Mar '13, 09:50) emj

Wow, thats pretty neat

I'll give you the source within a source; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2119055&highlight=method+madness

(10 Mar '13, 16:27) Akiva

One Answer:

Question "A": I've seen no tile server serving cubic globes.

But I'm sorry this is not a question about Openstreetmap, so you will not get an answer here. I did find some links that might help you:

use mercator instead check out how the slippy map work, especially how tile names are generated, they are vertically and horizontally aligned.
if you don't like that read up on projections on wikipedia, mercator vs. gnomic
there are people on the net that has done this.
You could try asking on gis.stackexchange they are probably better at open ended questions.

answered 13 Mar '13, 08:46

emj
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edited 13 Mar '13, 08:49