I've devised a devilishly new (?) way of dividing up goldberg polyhedra into equal-length gores
the gores are chosen such that each is "a straight line" when projected back on the original icosahedron's net
this also means that all the tiles can be stored into a plain old two dimensional array without any empty cells or heterogeneous lengths
the caveat is that the north and south pole are not part of the picture and that they have to be special cased