Man after my own heart. Having gone through a mapping project as
   part of my studies of human conceptualizations of reality (and
   their flaws and good points), I found that _so much_ is
   ENTRENCHED.

   A simple mapping project. I wanted to take a virtual world
   created over a couple of years by a few thousand people on my
   computer (Minecraft) and wrap it over a planet, just not this
   one.

   Shouldn't be hard to do. It's one coordinate system to another.

   Nope. It has been unbelievably difficult. ALL THE TOOLS are
   geared towards _this_ planet and *its* mapping - each coordinate
   system referring to the others, without a generic tie-in. A lot
   of woo yay was made over an alternate coordinate system
   available for Mars and another for the Moon.

   But to find a simple pixel coordinate system within the land of
   GIS? I had to use all kinds of tricks. I wanted to use the same
   nice tools that NASA uses and such but, nope, everybody's still
   stuck on this planet and with all the stuff we did in the past.

   I eventually succeeded by wrapping it across a equidistant
   azimuthal projection... but still.. wasn't quite the "it" I
   wanted. But close enough.