@TerribleMaps Finally, the map is the territory

@TerribleMaps Terrifying.

@TerribleMaps Jesus, that's around 40% of germany covered with a sheet of paper 😳

@TerribleMaps This library could have been a PDF.

@TerribleMaps @garethklose That’s a very square square. Shouldn’t something this size start to bend with the map projection?

@TerribleMaps @kayssun Is this per Page (and a PDF can have thousands of such 381km pages) - or is it that all pages combined cannot be bigger than that?

@TerribleMaps unfortunately the Commons picture seems to miss some information, which the usage of the picture in the German Wikipedia [1] clarifies. This is not the maximum page size of PDF, but merely a limitation of Adobe Acrobat. Other PDF tools may be able to create even bigger PDF page sizes.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

@TerribleMaps I literally ran into this very issue last week.

@TerribleMaps @tanepiper now I need a list of countries that could be depicted in a 1:1 map in PDF

@TerribleMaps at what resolution?

@TerribleMaps Switzerland.pdf

@rami now we know how big the PDF were that failed completely this morning? 😂😂

@TerribleMaps lol, whereas mathematical PDFs have no limit!

@TerribleMaps I love that not only is this a map that exists in our world, it's a map that exists in our world and is being used in a Wikipedia article (that exists in our world).

@TerribleMaps Imagine you wake up one day, and there's a goddamn PDF covering the sky

@TerribleMaps too short

@TerribleMaps proprietary document fuck

@TerribleMaps @mcc what I hate about this is that the limits are linear in each direction, so you can't, for example, sacrifice width for length.

@TerribleMaps This is actually really cool!

@TerribleMaps this is a great map