Haha, great idea!
Agreed. Maybe we should go with this.....I don't think accurate spherical scaling was never going to be a thing for this map , as it gets way too complicated, and also everything is moving around as the sphere grows.
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I am about off to bed so I can't get too much into it right now, but here's a pick of the scale with your islands from the earlier base map [before new lands were added].
This should be the scale everyone should be using. I'll talk more tomorrow. Sorry for any trouble Bogie.
I figured increasing the globe's size was going to cause some problems.
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This is incorrect.
From what I observed, my country had its southern shore translated some 10° northwards while its northern shore stayed broadly at the same latitude.
The N/S distance is alpha x R where alpha (in radians) is the difference between the N and S latitudes and R the radius of the planet.
So if I assume that R didn't change, this N/S distance has decreased by (alpha (original) - alpha (new)) x R, e.g ~0.17 x R = 0.17x 5 000 = 850 km
This distance was originally approx 3 250 km so that it has to be decreased by 850/3250 ~25 % what is not so much .
Conclusion :
The planet didn't become bigger but the countries became SMALLER. There is Nothing to be changed with the radius, so gravity, climate etc is as initially described .
But as NOTHING changed with the radius, Nothing changed with the angular scale. We have still 10° = 850 km like on day 1. If you want to know the distances of your country, you just multiply angles in degrees by 85 km.
This scale is ONLY defined for the equator and all longitudinal circles.
If one wanted to have finer scales taking in account the distortion with latitude, it would be necessary to do several scales by latitude bands like what jbgibson did.
I feel like this is all missing the point - which was to have a fun time mapping and celebrating that this site has reached 10 years online.
We were trying to be inclusive, which lead to more land masses to include more people. Which lead to some complications, I guess.
You all can choose what you want to focus on. It's a community project after all.
I have maps to make though, so I can't really participate in this part of it atm.
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Sorry JE, I didn't mean to stir the pot. And I agree that this is a fun project that shouldn't get hung up in the details. Mostly I was curious if my island was 500 miles wide or 2500 miles or somewhere in between. sounds like it is in between, works for me. Thanks.
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