Comment by JumpCrisscross

8 years ago

Has anyone made a large-format map (or better yet: globe) across which one can scroll to past geographic and political maps?

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Steuard  8 years ago

I think so! The "Magic Planet" is a digital projection globe that can display all sorts of different datasets. I've been more interested in its planetary science, astronomy, and geology applications, but I believe they've got lots of political, cultural, and economic visualizations as well.

http://globalimagination.com/

dredmorbius  8 years ago

Absolutely no idea, but I'd love to see this if so.

There are numerous specialised atlases and globes. I've never run across a generalised mapping engine and dataset like this.

Wikipedia / Wikimedia have a number of map sets, that might be a place to start your search.

Great question.