Today’s #30DayMapChallenge is all about projections.

Here’s the world through a heart-shaped projection, giving the map a creative twist the farther out you look.

#Cartography #MapProjections

#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 […]

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Ever noticed how Greenland looks huge on a map? It’s actually way smaller than Africa—thanks to map distortion! #RandomFact #MapProjections #Geography #FunFacts #DidYouKnow

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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 […]

A simple grayscale map of the world using the Equal Earth Projection. Instead of a rectangular projection like Mercator, the graticule lines curve gently toward the top and bottom of the map, giving all contents their true areas relative to each other.

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

#maps #cartography #MapProjections

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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" […]

PowerBI Map Projection Options It would be really helpful if there was a way to update the map projection in ArcGIS for PowerBI. I have polar data with points in North Pole and they fall off of the Mercator Projection default in PoweBI. Is there a work around for changing the projection, or are there future plans to have differen...

#mapprojections #ArcGISforPowerBI

7/14 jkrems explains the implications of over/misrepresentation in map projections, especially regarding area & population. It's not just about size, it's about perspective! #mapprojections #geopolitics #perspective

5/14 A major theme: the Mercator projection distorts land sizes! 🗺️ Participants advocate for globes or alternative projections in education. Ditch the Mercator! #MercatorProjection #mapprojections #education

A screenshot from Terrible Maps, showing the effects of commonly used map projections on a black and white sketch of a human head. Upper left: globular Upper right: Orthographic Lower left: Stereographic Lower right: Mercator

Another way of understanding #MapProjections.

Note Mercator (lower right).

#Maps #Geography

Thera: Orthographic Projections, Two-Hemispheres.

#Worldbuilding #Fantasy #Mapmaking #Mapprojections

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)

#Mapping / #Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How #Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
#GIS #spatial #projection #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids

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…
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning

The Impossible Map Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it …

The Impossible Map [video, 1947]
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #mapprojections #geography #coordinates #film #video #education #training #onlinelearning
@National Film Board of Canada @thenfb

Nostalgia – #Cartography & #Projections On #NetworkTV’s #WestWing
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #mapprojections #gischat #TV #EqualEarth #mapping #representation #mapgeeks #mapgeekiness #mercator #rhumblines #navigation #usecase #marine #shape #area #distance

I just spent some time looking at various map projections. Authagraph, eh? https://geoawesomeness.com/best-map-projection/ #MapProjections #Maps via @geoawesomeness