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This reminds me of the Peters Projection, one of the weirder attempts to map the oblate spheroid nature of the earth to a 2D plane. http://www.petersmap.com/ h
by DizzyDoo 15y ago
This reminds me of the Peters Projection, one of the weirder attempts to map the oblate spheroid nature of the earth to a 2D plane.
http://www.petersmap.com/ http://www.petersmap.com/
- ugh 15y agoMany people will know about this projection (and first have heard about different projections in general) from The West Wing episode Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%27s_Going_to_Emergency,_Somebody%27s_Going_to_Jail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%27s_Going_to_Emergency...).
- nkassis 15y agoWow, it would definitively be hard to use such a map in Canada looking at how it squeeze the polls.
- biot 15y agoThough politicians would love to squeeze the polls during an election.