Your World Map is Hiding Something There is also another point supporting the view that Mercator is culturally biased. Often the top and bottom of the map are clipped unevenly, giving more space to the […]
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Infographic via BrilliantMaps: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country
Map Projections: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country November 11, 2018 While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly […]
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INTERACTIVE via Metrocosm.com: Map Projections
For a quick map projection morph, send your students to Metrocosm.com’s, Eight Ways of Projecting the World. Let them draw some quick conclusions about the differences and similarities between the […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Cartographic Decisions (2)
We continue our discussion of map projections as those blasted plastic shapes (literally) make their appearance, we go TANGENT on our maps, and realize that Mina has a penchant for […]
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INTERACTIVE: Map Projection- Google and Jason Davies
Thanks to the Vsauce video, What Does the Earth Look Like, we can use a few other helpful sites to interact with map projection. The first one is Google’s Mercator Map Puzzle […]
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