Map Projection

[Trooper5445]

Your favorite?
Why?
Comments on the supposed "racism" of the Mercator projection. Stupidity of the Gall-Peters. I'm sure Arch has something he wants to say.

 

[Cymro]

MIller cylindrical \ö\

I'm a boring sod

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

I have no opinion on this subject, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.

 

[mrcrotch]

I love pancakes. I'll be adventerous and make some one day.

 

[Mage246]

The method used to represent a sphere (Earth) on a 2-d piece of paper (a map).

 

[Yeyinde]

My thoughts exactly, Corpsey.

Sci-fi style 3d holographic maps?

EDIT: **** you mage.

EDIT: **** you Corpsey.

 

[Mage246]

See, if I was European and you were Americans, I'd take this opportunity to make some snarky (and ultimately stupid) comment about the American education system. But, since I'm smart enough to realize that most people forget about stuff like map projection after they're no longer tested on it, I don't feel the need. That's just something that occurred to me.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

We've never had anything about it at all

Ditto. Schools here tend to concentrate on other things, like the correct spelling of words like colour.

 

[Mage246]

And yet you continue to spell color wrong. Strange.

 

[leprechaun]

And yet you continue to spell color wrong. Strange.

Well, we would if we spelled it like that.

 

[Ursca]

Ursca likes Werner cordiform projections, Craig retroazimuthal projections and Tobler hyperelliptical pseudocylindrical projections for their haunting moos
and the fact that it is far less distorted than the Hammer retroazimuthal pseudocylindrical projection which was a massive oversight.

 

[Lamjose]

Trooper sure does like starting threads.

 

[Sir Bommel]

We've never had anything about it at all

Ditto. Schools here tend to concentrate on other things, like the correct spelling of words like colour.

They should have teached you a reasonable measurement system (aka metric) and to drive on the right side instead!

 

[leprechaun]

They should have teached you

Fail.


That would be 'taught'.

 

[Ursca]

Double Fail.

We've been taught metric for years.

 

[Sir Bommel]

Well english isn´t my native language so I can live with that grammatical failure.

But you still drive on the wrong side of the road. 

 

[Ursca]

Our way of driving is perfect for drive-by shootings and impromptu jousting tournaments. That's all I need to know.

 

[James]

Well english isn´t my native language so I can live with that grammatical failure.

Goddamn those weak verbs, eh?

I like the Homolosine projection, partly because it's confusing to old people.

 

[Cirdan]

Ursca likes Werner cordiform projections, Craig retroazimuthal projections and Tobler hyperelliptical pseudocylindrical projections for their haunting moos
and the fact that it is far less distorted than the Hammer retroazimuthal pseudocylindrical projection which was a massive oversight.

I like the Werner, due to it leading to a (more or less) heart-shaped world. I guess I must harbour a hidden romantic--can it be cured by surgery?


Otherwise, I prefer a globe. Much more accurate than your projections

 

[M@ster-$]

Do they make globes absolute spheres or slap them on the Poles?