Lollards Visual Aids: Angry Cartographers

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Nov 07

Lollards Visual Aids: Angry Cartographers

Rick • FT • 2 comments • 4,361 views

For those of you baffled by my less than entirely clear descriptions on tonight’s Lollards Of Pop, here are some handy links to some of the map projections mentioned in the programme:

Standard Mercator
Americentric Mercator
Peters
Goode Homolosine
Gnomonic Octahedral
Werner (heart shaped)

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koganbot on 29 Nov 2007 #
GREENLAND WORRIES THAT IT LOOKS FAT IN MERCATOR PROJECTION
–Headline in The Onion, autumn 2001
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Pete † on 29 Nov 2007 #
Unfortunately for me, much of this ground was covered in the awesome “How To Lie With Maps” which Rob got me for my birthday (happy to lend anyone for more on Peters and other projections).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Maps-H-J-Blij/dp/0226534219/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196332156&sr=8-1

Mind you his follow up, From Squam Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame looks ace too.

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