"It's time and money, really"

A teenager with AutoCad should be able to punch in the coordinates and have it done in a day or two. There are lists of coordinates and lists of distances between points on earth. There are lists of country sizes. And flat earthers have had access to all of the same technology that round earthers have had, and round earthers manage to put satellites in orbit, create GPS, and develop Google Earth and send actual CARS around the world to video the entire planet, put it onto interactive computer programs, and let the world use it for free in exchange for allowing ad space to be put on it.

In the same time you've had to simply map a flat earth to a flat map, round earthers have installed cables around the world connecting distant cities, and accounting for the curvature of the earth while doing it, they've developed missile systems that account for the curvature of the earth and the corialis effect, and have programmed computers with spheroid math to allow cars, ships, and planes to virtually pilot themselves.

But in that same amount of time, flat earthers have not been able to create a GoFundMe account to get a single mathematician or high school kid to punch in the known information from the earth and produce a simple map?

But they have time to create THOUSANDS of videos, like the one in this post, that are easily debunked?

Sounds totally legit.

"I started working on a model last winter in Unreal 4 and made some progress but I ended up working on other projects trying to disprove some false claims made by flat earthers."

Good for you, but it would seem that a working map would be more critical than debunking some false claims, IMHO. Making a working model from which to do thought experiments would seem to be a critical first step for any theory to have traction.

"Others have made maps they claim are correct as far as flight distances and times (adjusting for true air speed) and sun/moon position, but I haven't really looked at them closely."

Not sure why the community doesn't put this on an open source program, like the round earth community does with their work, and allow people to work on it in their spare time. I guess having your work debunked is just not appealing, so open sourcing something that would allow anyone to bring their math and science to the forefront would not be ideal.

But here is a paper showing many of the open source programs for those who believe the earth is round to all be able to share their math and science to get repeatable experiments.

Which sounds more legit to you? Thousands of people on open source programs using their math and science to create repeatable experiments? Or a claim that a few people MIGHT BE 'working on' something (like the guy's hand drawn map above), but have yet to finish it despite having thousands of years to do so, and that an entire community with a particular belief system continues to use a model that they PATENTLY REJECT for their thought experiments?

Hmmm.

Hey, how about going on those open source science sites and debunking their math by contributing 'correct' flat earth math to their 'incorrect' (yet repeatable by thousands of people) math.

Naw, too scientific and open to debunking to do such scientific things.

Do you really not see how your excuses are really lame? NO ONE in thousands of years has been able to map a FLAT earth to a FLAT MAP! And flat earthers continue to use a model they REJECT for their thought experiments!

Hey, you know what I'd like to see is an auto cad or other program showing ANY flat shape with ANY sun of ANY size or distance that can light up half the earth at any one time, that can light up the southern hemisphere for 24 hours while the northern hemisphere is in darkness AND have it set due west of everyone on the planet on the Spring Equinox!

You'd be a hero if you did this... because it's impossible. It seems that proving impossibilties are possible would be even MORE urgent than having a map that works!

But hey, that's just me.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2015.1137579?src=recsys