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#30DayMapChallenge Day 19: Projections 🍊🌍
Ever tried peeling an orange and laying it flat? It cracks apart, just like the Earth when we project it onto a map.
So today I made a world map out of orange peel, styled in a polar stereographic projection. Made in #QGIS with #NaturalEarth data.
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 19: Projections 🍊🌍
Ever tried peeling an orange and laying it flat? It cracks apart, just like the Earth when we project it onto a map.
So today I made a world map out of orange peel, styled in a polar stereographic projection. Made in #QGIS with #NaturalEarth data.
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 19: Projections 🍊🌍
Ever tried peeling an orange and laying it flat? It cracks apart, just like the Earth when we project it onto a map.
So today I made a world map out of orange peel, styled in a polar stereographic projection. Made in #QGIS with #NaturalEarth data.
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 19: Projections 🍊🌍
Ever tried peeling an orange and laying it flat? It cracks apart, just like the Earth when we project it onto a map.
So today I made a world map out of orange peel, styled in a polar stereographic projection. Made in #QGIS with #NaturalEarth data.
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 19: Projections 🍊🌍
Ever tried peeling an orange and laying it flat? It cracks apart, just like the Earth when we project it onto a map.
So today I made a world map out of orange peel, styled in a polar stereographic projection. Made in #QGIS with #NaturalEarth data.
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National Geographic has been using the Winkel-Tripel projection since 1998, and the Robinson projection for quite some time before that. You'll find those or Plate-Carrée, Hobo-Dyer, or (heaven forbid) Gall-Peters in more classrooms than Mercator. Unless you have a time machine. This Equal Area projection just seems like a modified Robinson projection. I'm going to say it… they're cowards. Be brave! Promote a truly beautiful projection. the Waterman Butterfly!
I bet most people can't even tell the difference between Robinson, Winkel-Tripel and Equal Area at a glance.
https://youtu.be/WHHciXeDM_A
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-urges-adoption-world-map-showing-continents-true-size-2025-08-14/ -
National Geographic has been using the Winkel-Tripel projection since 1998, and the Robinson projection for quite some time before that. You'll find those or Plate-Carrée, Hobo-Dyer, or (heaven forbid) Gall-Peters in more classrooms than Mercator. Unless you have a time machine. This Equal Area projection just seems like a modified Robinson projection. I'm going to say it… they're cowards. Be brave! Promote a truly beautiful projection. the Waterman Butterfly!
I bet most people can't even tell the difference between Robinson, Winkel-Tripel and Equal Area at a glance.
https://youtu.be/WHHciXeDM_A
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-urges-adoption-world-map-showing-continents-true-size-2025-08-14/ -
National Geographic has been using the Winkel-Tripel projection since 1998, and the Robinson projection for quite some time before that. You'll find those or Plate-Carrée, Hobo-Dyer, or (heaven forbid) Gall-Peters in more classrooms than Mercator. Unless you have a time machine. This Equal Area projection just seems like a modified Robinson projection. I'm going to say it… they're cowards. Be brave! Promote a truly beautiful projection. the Waterman Butterfly!
I bet most people can't even tell the difference between Robinson, Winkel-Tripel and Equal Area at a glance.
https://youtu.be/WHHciXeDM_A
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-urges-adoption-world-map-showing-continents-true-size-2025-08-14/ -
Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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More about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
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More about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
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More about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
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More about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
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More about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
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Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
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Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
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Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
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Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
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Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
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Kurzer SZ-Artikel über Kartenprojektionen, Vorteile, Nachteile und alte Gewohnheiten:
"Weltkarten verzerren Afrikas wahre Größe: Dagegen wehrt es sich jetzt" https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/geschenk/einloesen?token=879b9a37-bb8d-4ee1-8649-0dcb4ae702dd
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Kurzer SZ-Artikel über Kartenprojektionen, Vorteile, Nachteile und alte Gewohnheiten:
"Weltkarten verzerren Afrikas wahre Größe: Dagegen wehrt es sich jetzt" https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/geschenk/einloesen?token=879b9a37-bb8d-4ee1-8649-0dcb4ae702dd
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Kurzer SZ-Artikel über Kartenprojektionen, Vorteile, Nachteile und alte Gewohnheiten:
"Weltkarten verzerren Afrikas wahre Größe: Dagegen wehrt es sich jetzt" https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/geschenk/einloesen?token=879b9a37-bb8d-4ee1-8649-0dcb4ae702dd
(Geschenk-Link) -
Kurzer SZ-Artikel über Kartenprojektionen, Vorteile, Nachteile und alte Gewohnheiten:
"Weltkarten verzerren Afrikas wahre Größe: Dagegen wehrt es sich jetzt" https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/geschenk/einloesen?token=879b9a37-bb8d-4ee1-8649-0dcb4ae702dd
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Kurzer SZ-Artikel über Kartenprojektionen, Vorteile, Nachteile und alte Gewohnheiten:
"Weltkarten verzerren Afrikas wahre Größe: Dagegen wehrt es sich jetzt" https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/geschenk/einloesen?token=879b9a37-bb8d-4ee1-8649-0dcb4ae702dd
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Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography -
Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography -
Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography -
Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
--
Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography -
Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography -
@cjmoorehead Somebody needs to ask #TimWalz his favorite map projection.
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@cjmoorehead Somebody needs to ask #TimWalz his favorite map projection.
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@cjmoorehead Somebody needs to ask #TimWalz his favorite map projection.
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@cjmoorehead Somebody needs to ask #TimWalz his favorite map projection.
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@cjmoorehead Somebody needs to ask #TimWalz his favorite map projection.
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I got 71/77 cards so I hope I can trade with others to complete the set. I know Daniel shared a sheet for trades but most of them there are far from the Philippines haha. Maybe at this year's FOSS4G conference or at future events? 😂
P.S. I've been brainstorming/thinking about something similar for the local #OpenMapping / #OpenGeospatial community in the Philippines. Shall we?
#TheProjectionCollection #MapProjections #Cartography #Maps #Geospatial #FOSS4G #GIS #TCG #CCG #Philippines
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I got 71/77 cards so I hope I can trade with others to complete the set. I know Daniel shared a sheet for trades but most of them there are far from the Philippines haha. Maybe at this year's FOSS4G conference or at future events? 😂
P.S. I've been brainstorming/thinking about something similar for the local #OpenMapping / #OpenGeospatial community in the Philippines. Shall we?
#TheProjectionCollection #MapProjections #Cartography #Maps #Geospatial #FOSS4G #GIS #TCG #CCG #Philippines
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I got 71/77 cards so I hope I can trade with others to complete the set. I know Daniel shared a sheet for trades but most of them there are far from the Philippines haha. Maybe at this year's FOSS4G conference or at future events? 😂
P.S. I've been brainstorming/thinking about something similar for the local #OpenMapping / #OpenGeospatial community in the Philippines. Shall we?
#TheProjectionCollection #MapProjections #Cartography #Maps #Geospatial #FOSS4G #GIS #TCG #CCG #Philippines
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I got 71/77 cards so I hope I can trade with others to complete the set. I know Daniel shared a sheet for trades but most of them there are far from the Philippines haha. Maybe at this year's FOSS4G conference or at future events? 😂
P.S. I've been brainstorming/thinking about something similar for the local #OpenMapping / #OpenGeospatial community in the Philippines. Shall we?
#TheProjectionCollection #MapProjections #Cartography #Maps #Geospatial #FOSS4G #GIS #TCG #CCG #Philippines
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I got 71/77 cards so I hope I can trade with others to complete the set. I know Daniel shared a sheet for trades but most of them there are far from the Philippines haha. Maybe at this year's FOSS4G conference or at future events? 😂
P.S. I've been brainstorming/thinking about something similar for the local #OpenMapping / #OpenGeospatial community in the Philippines. Shall we?
#TheProjectionCollection #MapProjections #Cartography #Maps #Geospatial #FOSS4G #GIS #TCG #CCG #Philippines
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The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
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[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
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I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…
Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb -
The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
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[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
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I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…
Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb -
The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
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[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
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I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…
Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb -
The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
--
[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
--
I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…
Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb -
The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
--
https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/ <--link to video
--
[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]
“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”
--
I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…
Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@thenfb -
An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.
The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.
blog.map-projections.net/the-d…
Direct link to Kunimune's work:
kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…#MapProjections
#danseiji #danseijiIV
#dymaxion #DymaxionProjection -
An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.
The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.
blog.map-projections.net/the-d…
Direct link to Kunimune's work:
kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…#MapProjections
#danseiji #danseijiIV
#dymaxion #DymaxionProjection -
An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.
The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.
blog.map-projections.net/the-d…
Direct link to Kunimune's work:
kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…#MapProjections
#danseiji #danseijiIV
#dymaxion #DymaxionProjection -
An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.
The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.
blog.map-projections.net/the-d…
Direct link to Kunimune's work:
kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…#MapProjections
#danseiji #danseijiIV
#dymaxion #DymaxionProjection -
An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.
The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.
blog.map-projections.net/the-d…
Direct link to Kunimune's work:
kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…#MapProjections
#danseiji #danseijiIV
#dymaxion #DymaxionProjection -
"Map Projections: The Hot Dog" by artist Agnes Denes 1976, in the National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.127416.html
#Art #Maps #cartography #MapProjections #projections #AgnesDenes #HotDog #NationalGallery #NationalGalleryOfArt
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"Map Projections: The Hot Dog" by artist Agnes Denes 1976, in the National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.127416.html
#Art #Maps #cartography #MapProjections #projections #AgnesDenes #HotDog #NationalGallery #NationalGalleryOfArt
