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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: alex on May 19, 2015, 09:00:55 AM

Title: Re: Flat Earth Weather Service
Post by: alex on May 19, 2015, 09:00:55 AM

Hi David,

very nice webpage and very educative. But does the page not assume the earth is round?

Title: Re: Re: Flat Earth Weather Service
Post by: Thork on May 20, 2015, 10:35:53 PM

No, the same site does globes if you prefer them.

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic

Title: Re: Re: Flat Earth Weather Service
Post by: Tom Bishop on May 21, 2015, 12:10:35 AM

It can also do the bipolar map:

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=misery_index/azimuthal_equidistant=31.55,21.09,145

Title: Re: Re: Flat Earth Weather Service
Post by: alex on May 21, 2015, 06:32:23 AM

Yes its nice. To see all the possible projections of a sphere onto a two-dimensional plane (your monitor...). There is a nice summary on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

Title: Re: Re: Flat Earth Weather Service
Post by: xasop on May 23, 2015, 08:40:52 AM

alex, the Information Repository is for posting resources, not having discussions. Moved your question here.