Hi, my name is giacomo faiella.

I design peculiar maps of the world.

i would like to know if is possible to create a way to see different projections of the planet Earth? As a default map, OpenStreetMap has used the mercator projection, just like google maps. It would be interesting to have the opportunity to choose from maps with different projections, perhaps in the form of a list, and be able to make transitions between one map and another.

like this example

If this is possible, it would be fantastic to integrate “artistic” projections of the world as well; maps of parallel worlds to navigate your way around the planet. I would like to start a work team to create this possibility, in perfect creative-commons style. I have 4 world maps that I designed and that are the exact example of what i mean, and could make the base to start this project.

1) is the “Planisphere Palindrome” and is readable upside up or upside down, like an ambigram. You can see that land masses and oceans have exactly the same shape.

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