runsforcelery wrote:I regret the fact that when I started mapping Safehold I couldn't find a software package which would let me both generate an entirely unique world and measure its distances in accurate projection. The software I use will let me display a globe that shows how the projection would work, but I can't scale from it. Because of that, I've accepted "flat," geographically impossible distances in order to measure them consistently. That is, it lets me reproduce distances which are the same from measurement to measurement even though they are not accurate measures of the "actual distances. This was a necessary evil, since I would rapidly have gone insane trying to move military units (or anything else) on a planetary scale without it.
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Well. I'm sure that I speak for all, when I say that I'm v glad indeed you chose not to go off the rails
