[TML] 2300 style mapping (was: mapping programs)

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 6/20/08 7:55 PM, "Evyn MacDude" <infojunky at ceecom.net> wrote:

> Jerry, what your kinda missing is that it is an projection, that is
> only kinda equal area, equal shape, it's trade offs are better than
> other projections for gaming use. We could use stitched together UTM
> gores, now wouldn't that be fun, well, ok I would dig it, but lots of
> other people would be pulling out their hair.

Oh, I know the icosahedron is useful for game mapping (although the corners
cause some difficulties).  It's just fixing the hex size to 1,000 km that I
have a problem with.  Then your maps have a 5,000 km increment in
circumference.  So if your world is 42,500 km around, you have to adjust to
either 40,000 or 45,000.  Why not just change the hex size?

Hell, for *really* small worlds, you could wrap 4 hexes around an
octahedron!  :)  Then you'd have 4 *really* nasty corners, but everything
else would be nicely flat.