Comment on The True Size of Africa - Misleading MapsparentComments−nollidge13yI've thought about trying to build an app that does what that animation on the Wikipedia page does [0], but I'm not sure where I'd find spherical (or near enough) textures of the world map to experiment with.[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_sm...−jre13yYou could "unproject" another projection for which you have texture back to your sphere and then do the isocahedron projection.Also, maybe you can find a database of the countries border as lat/lng polygons and just draw the countries.−sampo13yNatural Earth has lots of that kind of databases: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
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I've thought about trying to build an app that does what that animation on the Wikipedia page does [0], but I'm not sure where I'd find spherical (or near enough) textures of the world map to experiment with.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_sm...
You could "unproject" another projection for which you have texture back to your sphere and then do the isocahedron projection.
Also, maybe you can find a database of the countries border as lat/lng polygons and just draw the countries.
Natural Earth has lots of that kind of databases: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/