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[ravells]

I share my maps via a digital projector (suspended from above and pointed down onto our gaming table) to augment my PnP games so I believe this medium would be extremely effective in immersing my PCs in our world.

Now that is super cool, although you might have a shadow problem if people were moving counters on the map. Just to wander into the realms of fantasy for the moment, imagine a gaming table which had surface made of translucent plastic and projecting the image onto it from below.

As for zooming into a vector map, just to add a little to what has already been said, one real problem in doing this is that you would have to manage what information you wanted to be visible at any particular zoom, otherwise if the map was zoomed out you would get a mass of unwanted labels and details.

[Valarian]

Now that is super cool, although you might have a shadow problem if people were moving counters on the map. Just to wander into the realms of fantasy for the moment, imagine a gaming table which had surface made of translucent plastic and projecting the image onto it from below.

What? Like this

[ravells]

Oh yes! Could I have two please?

[Valarian]

I think they're estimated at around $10,000 each.
More details here and here

[ravells]

I think they're estimated at around $10,000 each.
More details here and here

Oh well, I'd better just take one then!