Beyond Mercator

Mapzen has published links to a issue of experimental interactive maps which piece of job experimental map projections. While none of these experimental map projections are quite laid upward to threaten the dominant pose of Web Mercator online, they produce demo that other map projections are available. They are too pretty awesome inwards that park freaky Tangram way.

Among the to a greater extent than experimental map projections inwards Escape from Mercator is an Inception map projection (which looked at concluding week), a Katamari projection (pictured above), a psychedelic wavy map projection together with a 2nd to 3d transitional projection.


The event maps too include an Albers projection (pictured), which genuinely plant real good every bit an interactive map projection.

Mapzen are correct to indicate out that all these map projections are 'highly experimental'. However they are too genuinely interesting. They too hint that Web Mercator's reign every bit the dominant spider web mapping projection may i solar daytime come upward to an end.