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[personal profile] kmusser
I have a new favorite comic: http://xkcd.com/977/

Yay for geography in-jokes. I'm generally an Albers Equal Area guy myself.

Surprised he didn't go for a Buckminster Fuller joke in there.

Date: 14 Nov 2011 14:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] craig trader (from livejournal.com)
He left out my personal favorite: McArthur's Corrective Universal Map:

http://odtmaps.com/detail.asp_Q_product_id_E_McA-23x35

Date: 14 Nov 2011 16:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zammis.livejournal.com
of course you have to like one NOT on the list. :P

Date: 14 Nov 2011 18:23 (UTC)
andrewducker: (Default)
From: [personal profile] andrewducker
Could you illuminate me as to the problematic nature of the Peters Projection?

Date: 14 Nov 2011 18:49 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] andrewducker
How does it distort the equatorial region? My understanding was that everything is shown in proportion to the actual land area it takes up. Is that wrong?

Date: 14 Nov 2011 19:05 (UTC)
andrewducker: (Default)
From: [personal profile] andrewducker
Aaah, gotcha.

So which projection does equal area with the least distortion?

Date: 15 Nov 2011 11:08 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] andrewducker
Cheers. I shall remember that next time I'm ordering a map!

Date: 14 Nov 2011 22:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuck-lw.livejournal.com
I have shoes with toes in them, and I use a Dvorak layout on my cell phone, but I've never seen this dymaxion map before. Is it going to stick with me now?

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