Australian World Map · shard-db HN Explorer

If you're going to post a link to a map, make it a vector map, this is horribly low res.

If you give me the search-fu for vector images, I'll do that next time I'm tempted.

(as is, GOOG's image search only offers me the options of "clip art" "line drawing" and "gif". Somehow I believe their definitions for those categories are likely not as technical as mine)

drewnoakes 2y ago ↗

I believe you can add filetype:svg or something similar. I've used that in the past to retrieve PNG files.

porjo 2y ago ↗

Looks like it's a commercial product, so I doubt you'll find a freely available svg.

https://www.mapworld.com.au/products/australia-upside-down-w...

082349872349872 2y ago ↗

Although it also looks like OpenStreetMap has both country-level boundary and name data, so it should be just a "simple matter of programming" to create one's own svg (assuming the ISO 3166 countries are to one's taste).

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Country_Codes

habi 2y ago ↗

https://osm-boundaries.com/ might be an 'easy' way to get the boundaries already present in OpenStreetMap.

layer8 2y ago ↗

An Australian world map shouldn’t have Greenland appear larger than Australia (which in reality is about 3.5 times the size of Greenland).

duskwuff 2y ago ↗

I'm surprised they didn't just cut the northern hemisphere off at a lower latitude.

hilbert42 2y ago ↗

It's Mercator you know. We're just used to the distortions the other way up. :-)

[dead] NoPicklez 2y ago ↗

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thatguy27 2y ago ↗

Not a vector map, but a highish-resolution of ODT's Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection [South at top]:

https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730456_7730456_118706...

Australian World Map (live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au)

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