Xkcd Map Projections

Xkcd Map Projections. xkcd The Map Room Borges), especially if you consult the comic's alt text: "The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around. Randall has been into maps for a long time on xkcd

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The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. Map Projections (alt-text) What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not

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Like this: Mercator (Australian) Robinson (Australian) I'd be grateful to know what the name for this is National Geographic switched to this projection in 1988, and used it for ten years, switching to the Winkel-Tripel in 1998. Putting Europe in the middle as in the xkcd and linked Wikipedia maps looks "different" to us

xkcd Bad Map Projection The Greenland Special. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

Xkcd What If. It's also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel.