On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Caleuche <xxxxxx@sudnadja.com> wrote:

It'd be helpful to know how this: https://i.imgur.com/rkzVMuC.png should look (while remaining projected onto a sphere). I wasn't expecting to end up with a pentagram at the top of the world but I never really thought about it beyond casually before.

OH! >Bright Light went on<; You want Hexes on a globe! Ok, every line of each hexagon is going to be a segment of a great circle. i.e. each line is a arc.

Sorry, I was missing it before.

if you can post a picture showing where the hex borders should be, when related to a globe, that'd be very helpful. There are several approaches to it but I lose something out of each one, either the edges of the hexes cannot remain north-south aligned, or I have to make huge "filler" hexes as I've done here which also has the effect of "squishing" hexes or stretching them in the north-south direction.

Yep. Welcome to cartography, The eternal tradeoff of shape vs area. One of the reasons I like the Icosahedral projection is it has a solid tradeoff between the two that also lends itself well to a solid linear scale.

Evyn