That was... a lot. I decided to put some inheritance into the project,
and what a rabbit hole that turned out to be!
Huh. I think that may be the first time I've ever actually used an
"exclamatory statement". What a useless structure that is!
Anyway, both MapDesigners now inherit from the same abstract super
class. Eventually, I'll get MapAnalyzer to link to that, too. I also
changed a whole lot of other things, and started inserting parametric
map capacities. That should be a fun GUI thing to figure out. I also
changed a lot of other things that I can't remember off the top of my
head. I've just been dragging chunks of code around and swimming in
errors for the past week.
I had been under the impression that there wasn't one. If so, I'm
apparently a cartographic genius. More likely I was just mislead by that
2002 Turkish paper.
I made a new program to plot existing map projections with labels (I
have yet to actually add the labels). I also moved some things around,
implemented Aitoff, and found a bug in my Newton-Raphson Approximation
that was making it converge slower (how it still managed to converge to
the right value is totally beyond me).
I implemented the Tobler projection using values from Tobler's paper,
Numerical Approaches to Map Projections and spline interpolation. I used
the apache commons' cubic spline solution, which felt kind of like
cheating, but splines are way more complicated to solve for than I
thought, so I don't feel that bad.
It's also not actually equal-area, so not sure what's up with that. I'll
probably go looking for an iterative solution to try to deal with that.
Either way, this is a great projection.
I also move some methods and classes around.
I refactored everything (assuming I actually understand what the word
'refactoring' means, which I think I do, but I'm not sure. I'm too lazy
to check). There are fewer duplicate names, corresponding information is
closer together in general, the code has less redundancy, it's easier to
add new map projections, and classes are grouped more effectively and
more logically. I've now switched from using Strings to represent map
projections to using an enum (remember when I was using separate
classes? Wow, that was trash!). I was also going to combine the
MapDesigners and MapAnalyzer with some inheritance type stuff, but I
think that's content for another commit.
