[Mapserver-dev] Re: Comments on map rotation
Jan Hartmann
j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl
Thu May 27 12:00:44 EDT 2004
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> My interest in the wiki has been renewed lately. While updating my own
>> information, I saw your map rotation page
>>
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapRotation
>>
>> Cool! I took the liberty of adding a comment at the bottom that
>> points to
>> my page for discussion of ramifications of map rotation
>>
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?
>> MapRotationBreaksConceptOfTheMap
>
Quoting Frank on that second wiki page:
> I would add that a paper map in theory could have north not being
> towards the top of the map.
One example that springs to mind is the campus map of the University of
Minnesota. I got hopelessly lost when I used it to walk from downtown
Minneapolis to the campus last year. Why on earth did they put the south
on top? And even worse, why didn't they put a North arrow on it? I would
never have expected this of a map coming out of the U of M :-)
Jan
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