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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: Check out these alternative maps... |
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The world is not flat.
You knew that -- but if you believe most maps of the world, we live on a neat, flat rectangle. Greenland? Huge. South America? Average.
None of that is true, of course. It's the consequence of mapping a spherical globe onto a flat plane, and it's also a classic example of the way maps can be misleading.
"Maps can be misleading, absolutely," says Mark Newman of the University of Michigan, who is a co-author of the book The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live... |
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Rusty Shackleford
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I read somewhere that many maps in the 60's were made in order to make europe look a lot larger than India. I have a map at home that was used in classes in the 50's that has Greenland stretching down almost to Nova Scotia. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you see how big Japan gets when we draw the globe according to per-capita car exports? |
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: |
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If you're into this kind of thing, check out
strangemaps.wordpress.com
Lots of interesting and cool pics/comments. |
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re:cursive
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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I am personally a fan of the Dymaxion map designed by Buckminster Fuller.
Quoting the man himself:
"It was to provide a satisfactory means for all of humanity to see correctly the entire surface of the world at the same time that the Dymaxion Sky-Ocean Projection was designed. With it, for the first time in history, humans can see the whole planet Earth's geography displayed on one flat surface without any visible distortion in shape or relative size of any of its data and without any breaks in its continental contour - that is, the whole world surface is viewable simultaneously as one-world island of unbroken contour in one-world ocean."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map |
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gazz
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gazz
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