What about StreetView (equirectangular image) and VR tour to implement? I.e. all #insta360 photos/videos are today also a standard. Is it implemented in some way? I already know about the lexicon on places..
October 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
What about StreetView (equirectangular image) and VR tour to implement? I.e. all #insta360 photos/videos are today also a standard. Is it implemented in some way? I already know about the lexicon on places..
October 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Quel dommage que l'Union astronomique internationale ait divisé tout l'espace de la voûte céleste et ne permette plus de créer de nouvelles constellations. Impossible, donc, de créer des constellations de «l'imprimante en panne» ou de «la chevelure de Trump».
October 21, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Quel dommage que l'Union astronomique internationale ait divisé tout l'espace de la voûte céleste et ne permette plus de créer de nouvelles constellations. Impossible, donc, de créer des constellations de «l'imprimante en panne» ou de «la chevelure de Trump».
Zhe Wu, Xiaoyan Fei, Xinyi Jiang, Yanxu Wei, Junming Rao, Yihong Yan, Xuewei Li: Spherical Geometry-Aware Panoptic Scene Graph Generation for Equirectangular Panoramas https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28033 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.28033
October 21, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Zhe Wu, Xiaoyan Fei, Xinyi Jiang, Yanxu Wei, Junming Rao, Yihong Yan, Xuewei Li: Spherical Geometry-Aware Panoptic Scene Graph Generation for Equirectangular Panoramas https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28033 https://arxiv.org/html/2610.28033
October 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Introducing a design that clearly illustrates the relationships between constellations, the Milky Way, the celestial equator, and the ecliptic. Read the ALT for details.
September 26, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Introducing a design that clearly illustrates the relationships between constellations, the Milky Way, the celestial equator, and the ecliptic. Read the ALT for details.
Equirectangular, Gall-Peters, and Mercator Projections (respectively):
September 20, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Equirectangular, Gall-Peters, and Mercator Projections (respectively):
Ostensibly because as it currently stands, Africa in particular is made to look much smaller by comparison? Africa lies almost entirely between the tropics, so it's the most distorted in the "small" direction by the Mercator or equirectangular projections.
September 6, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Ostensibly because as it currently stands, Africa in particular is made to look much smaller by comparison? Africa lies almost entirely between the tropics, so it's the most distorted in the "small" direction by the Mercator or equirectangular projections.
Equirectangular for me.
September 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Equirectangular for me.
new UN map projection has nothing on equirectangular sorry
September 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
new UN map projection has nothing on equirectangular sorry
Looks like a celebratory panorama incoming from Perseverance rover on Mars
Sol 1968 (2nd September, 2026)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/aerobrowser areobrowser.com#/mode=persev...
Sol 1968 (2nd September, 2026)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/aerobrowser areobrowser.com#/mode=persev...
September 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Looks like a celebratory panorama incoming from Perseverance rover on Mars
Sol 1968 (2nd September, 2026)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/aerobrowser areobrowser.com#/mode=persev...
Sol 1968 (2nd September, 2026)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/aerobrowser areobrowser.com#/mode=persev...
Mercator maps don't shrink Africa; the projection leaves areas at the equator unchanged; as you move away from it the equirectangular projection would increase the E-W dimension by a factor of the sine of the latitude; mercator makes it an equal-area projection by scaling the N-W by the same factor.
September 4, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Mercator maps don't shrink Africa; the projection leaves areas at the equator unchanged; as you move away from it the equirectangular projection would increase the E-W dimension by a factor of the sine of the latitude; mercator makes it an equal-area projection by scaling the N-W by the same factor.
164 countries at the UN voted in favour of the resolution to adopt the "Equirectangular projection" of Earth instead of the antiquated Mercator projection.
About time!
Also, the new official maps show the Gulf of Mexico.
Suck on that, #Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
About time!
Also, the new official maps show the Gulf of Mexico.
Suck on that, #Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
164 countries at the UN voted in favour of the resolution to adopt the "Equirectangular projection" of Earth instead of the antiquated Mercator projection.
About time!
Also, the new official maps show the Gulf of Mexico.
Suck on that, #Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
About time!
Also, the new official maps show the Gulf of Mexico.
Suck on that, #Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Ashtagon’s Patera, 8 miles per hex v1
Presenting for the first time: Emma’s completed full map of Patera in Equirectangular projection, at 8 miles per hex. Thanks, Emma, for allowing me the honour of posting this for you. Even the lower resolution preview was too large for DeviantArt, so here it…
Presenting for the first time: Emma’s completed full map of Patera in Equirectangular projection, at 8 miles per hex. Thanks, Emma, for allowing me the honour of posting this for you. Even the lower resolution preview was too large for DeviantArt, so here it…
Ashtagon’s Patera, 8 miles per hex v1
Presenting for the first time: Emma’s completed full map of Patera in Equirectangular projection, at 8 miles per hex. Thanks, Emma, for allowing me the honour of posting this for you. Even the lower resolution preview was too large for DeviantArt, so here it is. Note that the version below is a 100 DPI preview of the full map. It’s still rather huge even at that resolution, but the full, 300 DPI version linked to below is even larger.
atlasofmystara.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Ashtagon’s Patera, 8 miles per hex v1
Presenting for the first time: Emma’s completed full map of Patera in Equirectangular projection, at 8 miles per hex. Thanks, Emma, for allowing me the honour of posting this for you. Even the lower resolution preview was too large for DeviantArt, so here it…
Presenting for the first time: Emma’s completed full map of Patera in Equirectangular projection, at 8 miles per hex. Thanks, Emma, for allowing me the honour of posting this for you. Even the lower resolution preview was too large for DeviantArt, so here it…
Visualization of the day: Sphere to Equirectangular Projection
Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/sphere-to-eq...
Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/sphere-to-eq...
August 25, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Visualization of the day: Sphere to Equirectangular Projection
Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/sphere-to-eq...
Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/sphere-to-eq...
Not ideal, but I usually go into blender and make some kind of environment shader that I render to an equirectangular image.
August 24, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Not ideal, but I usually go into blender and make some kind of environment shader that I render to an equirectangular image.
Ashtagon’s Patera North Pole, 8 miles per hex v1
With her 8 mile per hex map of Patera well underway, Emma took a detour to create separate maps of the polar regions. She explained the reason for doing this in a work-in-progress preview at DeviantArt as follows: WORK IN PROGRESS! DRAFT VERSION!…
With her 8 mile per hex map of Patera well underway, Emma took a detour to create separate maps of the polar regions. She explained the reason for doing this in a work-in-progress preview at DeviantArt as follows: WORK IN PROGRESS! DRAFT VERSION!…
Ashtagon’s Patera North Pole, 8 miles per hex v1
With her 8 mile per hex map of Patera well underway, Emma took a detour to create separate maps of the polar regions. She explained the reason for doing this in a work-in-progress preview at DeviantArt as follows: WORK IN PROGRESS! DRAFT VERSION! Patera, North Polar region. One hex equals eight miles. Previous versions of the Patera maps have been in a equirectangular (aka plate careé) projection, which greatly distorts distances at the north and south pole.
atlasofmystara.com
August 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Ashtagon’s Patera North Pole, 8 miles per hex v1
With her 8 mile per hex map of Patera well underway, Emma took a detour to create separate maps of the polar regions. She explained the reason for doing this in a work-in-progress preview at DeviantArt as follows: WORK IN PROGRESS! DRAFT VERSION!…
With her 8 mile per hex map of Patera well underway, Emma took a detour to create separate maps of the polar regions. She explained the reason for doing this in a work-in-progress preview at DeviantArt as follows: WORK IN PROGRESS! DRAFT VERSION!…
Respectively:
-Azimuthal ED (Flat Earther Projection 🙄)
-Equirectangular
-Mercator
-Mollweide
-Azimuthal ED (Flat Earther Projection 🙄)
-Equirectangular
-Mercator
-Mollweide
August 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Respectively:
-Azimuthal ED (Flat Earther Projection 🙄)
-Equirectangular
-Mercator
-Mollweide
-Azimuthal ED (Flat Earther Projection 🙄)
-Equirectangular
-Mercator
-Mollweide
i used the three.js gpt (that is listed on their documentation) today bc i couldnt find any documentation on how to use the equirectangular projection and it was quite nice; i usually dont like doing that but tbf its perfect if its specialized for a framework
August 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
i used the three.js gpt (that is listed on their documentation) today bc i couldnt find any documentation on how to use the equirectangular projection and it was quite nice; i usually dont like doing that but tbf its perfect if its specialized for a framework
There are plenty of tools to convert equirectangular maps to other projections. But barely any to convert projections back to equirectangular.
So if anybody else ever needs to turn a mercator map into equirectangular i put this together: tools.thiefling.com/map-projecti...
#mapmaking #cartopgraphy
So if anybody else ever needs to turn a mercator map into equirectangular i put this together: tools.thiefling.com/map-projecti...
#mapmaking #cartopgraphy
Map Projection Converter
tools.thiefling.com
March 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
There are plenty of tools to convert equirectangular maps to other projections. But barely any to convert projections back to equirectangular.
So if anybody else ever needs to turn a mercator map into equirectangular i put this together: tools.thiefling.com/map-projecti...
#mapmaking #cartopgraphy
So if anybody else ever needs to turn a mercator map into equirectangular i put this together: tools.thiefling.com/map-projecti...
#mapmaking #cartopgraphy
“Look, I think it’s pretty obvious here that Alito just really loves flags. Can’t get enough of ‘em, he’ll nab any unsecured equirectangular piece of cotton and compulsively tie it to a stick. Surely a simple hobby doesn’t affect his impartiality as a jurist.”
May 23, 2024 at 4:42 AM
“Look, I think it’s pretty obvious here that Alito just really loves flags. Can’t get enough of ‘em, he’ll nab any unsecured equirectangular piece of cotton and compulsively tie it to a stick. Surely a simple hobby doesn’t affect his impartiality as a jurist.”