<story><title>Printing a wall-sized world map and what I&apos;ve learned from it</title><url>http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/potpourri/worldmap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesfe</author><text>I was formerly a cartographer with the military; I have lots of experience with large format maps, both of the world and of single countries (usually Iraq).  It was fun to read an article about a map that wasn&amp;#x27;t hastily tacked up on a wall with nails or duct tape.&lt;p&gt;A few notes:&lt;p&gt;- Paper sags over time.  Good thing he mounted it to a board&lt;p&gt;- We printed on tyvek for water&amp;#x2F;rip proofing, which was interesting.  It&amp;#x27;s surprisingly hard to rip.&lt;p&gt;- I would have chosen a different projection maybe, but only for purely aesthetics, not any scientific reason.  If its hanging on a wall in your house because you want it, you have all the license in the world to do whatever.&lt;p&gt;- I can&amp;#x27;t tell, but did NZ make the cut?&lt;p&gt;- And I may not have used blue for areas in the corners that are not actually water.&lt;p&gt;What a great job though!&lt;p&gt;This reminded me of Colonels coming to me in the military saying - &amp;quot;I want all of Iraq on my wall at 1:50,000&amp;quot; and as a junior enlisted man saying something, very respectfully, like &amp;quot;Well, sir, Iraq is about 900km from top to bottom, so that&amp;#x27;s 900,000m, and at 1:50,000 that&amp;#x27;s about 18m from top to bottom.  How high are your ceilings?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asavadatti</author><text>Obligatory &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;worldmapswithout.nz&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;worldmapswithout.nz&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Printing a wall-sized world map and what I&apos;ve learned from it</title><url>http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/potpourri/worldmap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesfe</author><text>I was formerly a cartographer with the military; I have lots of experience with large format maps, both of the world and of single countries (usually Iraq).  It was fun to read an article about a map that wasn&amp;#x27;t hastily tacked up on a wall with nails or duct tape.&lt;p&gt;A few notes:&lt;p&gt;- Paper sags over time.  Good thing he mounted it to a board&lt;p&gt;- We printed on tyvek for water&amp;#x2F;rip proofing, which was interesting.  It&amp;#x27;s surprisingly hard to rip.&lt;p&gt;- I would have chosen a different projection maybe, but only for purely aesthetics, not any scientific reason.  If its hanging on a wall in your house because you want it, you have all the license in the world to do whatever.&lt;p&gt;- I can&amp;#x27;t tell, but did NZ make the cut?&lt;p&gt;- And I may not have used blue for areas in the corners that are not actually water.&lt;p&gt;What a great job though!&lt;p&gt;This reminded me of Colonels coming to me in the military saying - &amp;quot;I want all of Iraq on my wall at 1:50,000&amp;quot; and as a junior enlisted man saying something, very respectfully, like &amp;quot;Well, sir, Iraq is about 900km from top to bottom, so that&amp;#x27;s 900,000m, and at 1:50,000 that&amp;#x27;s about 18m from top to bottom.  How high are your ceilings?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dettervt</author><text>If you look at the very bottom corner of &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dominik-schwarz.net&amp;#x2F;potpourri&amp;#x2F;worldmap&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;DSC_3256.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dominik-schwarz.net&amp;#x2F;potpourri&amp;#x2F;worldmap&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;DSC...&lt;/a&gt; it looks like NZ was included, you can just see the Auckland area.</text></comment>