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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.70654

Just checked again, and it's verbatim this use case and even active until 2030 still:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100305853A1/en

3-D map display

Abstract

A computer generated 3-dimensional map display includes a reference icon identifying an observation point in the geographic area defined by the map, the map being presented on a curved surface which extends from a first plane to a second plane which is substantially orthogonal to the first plane. The observation point is located in the first plane. The display is configured such that the height of landmarks and buildings in a defined foreground of the reference icon are presented normal to the first plane, the height of land marks and buildings at a defined far distance are presented normal to the second plane and the height of land marks and buildings in a defined middle ground are presented normal to the non-linear portion of the curved surface. The geographic area represented can be translated along the curved surface to provide a perception that the reference icon is roaming through the displayed geographic area.

By no other than "Here and There" Schulze and Webb Ltd later rebranded to BERG.

The generic use case of a multiperspective camera method for that was arguable covered in a 1997 Disney paper latest.

Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs597b/p...

I made a custom projection once, that's a bit friendlier to fold and comes in one tile.

Has no rendered flaps, but you should get the idea where to place them.

Still somewhat stiff, but managed to actually build two of them, would recommend printing on heavy A3 sheets or bigger.

Anyone is welcome to iterate. There even is a todo list with obvious things to improve upon.

Why would you want to have more people from anywhere else possibly raid them for anything useful? This way nobody is inclined to put anything worthwhile in there if it just ends up outside of their communities. Not that I'm in general pessimistic, just would like to know what is gained by putting the exact location into a map and not just have a list of neigborhoods with a book corner and optional photo on that neigborhood level, if people want to network around them.

"the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership."

or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now:

"Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means.

Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being touristically interesting. In the map I count like 9.

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Because same methods can also used by bad actors for deceptive and spammy actions and we are not allowed to have nice things ever.

Therefore Google has something against messing with browser navigation state back button behavior and history such actions usually got demoted in rankings.

I think it's also fine for all sort of marginal and ephemeral actions that should not spam the browser history, like panning over a map or how far you scrolled down a page, but want to end up back there on reload and shares possibly.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-butto...

I’ve never said that just because you’re invoking the Nazis you’re losing the argument. If you’re going to compare somebody to Hitler or the Nazis or raise the specter of the Holocaust, be sure you’ve got your facts right.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/godwins-la...

That's like a weird hidden tax.

In a network world where 1GB Ethernet randomly can handshake at 100Mbit still, getting reliably more than 3/4 of the advertised Bandwith from the Adapter seems quite harmless.

https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards?search=USB-C

No they dont come free in the base config either, you have to pay a minimum of 10 for every slush port.

Just works with depth hinting no actual stereo information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630210

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