Comments on: A New Global Spin http://negative99.com/general/a-new-global-spin/ An onslaught of expository excellence covering web design and development, politics and current events, faith and religion, guitar and music, programming... oh, and anything else. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: WarAxe http://negative99.com/general/a-new-global-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-916 WarAxe Wed, 17 May 2006 21:21:15 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/219#comment-916 Yeah, the Mercator projection was always the worst one for size comparison because of the severe distortions at the top and bottom of the cylinder (rectangle). The Albers projection is the one everyone associates with graphing plane travel and it's pretty accurate for smaller maps. And yes, the Goode projection is a great world map, but always reminded me of seventies TV news shows. (Also, I have an aversion to 'Goode') Yeah, the Mercator projection was always the worst one for size comparison because of the severe distortions at the top and bottom of the cylinder (rectangle).

The Albers projection is the one everyone associates with graphing plane travel and it’s pretty accurate for smaller maps.

And yes, the Goode projection is a great world map, but always reminded me of seventies TV news shows. (Also, I have an aversion to ‘Goode’)

]]> By: Montane http://negative99.com/general/a-new-global-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Montane Wed, 17 May 2006 04:05:53 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/219#comment-911 The land mass size on a map is distorted away from the equator in rectangular maps because we try to project the surface of a sphere onto a two dimensional rectangle, the Mercator projection. That is the key reason why we see the Goode projection (amongst others); the interrupted projection commonly used for world maps. It reminds me of someone peeling the Earth and spreading the peel flat. The land mass size on a map is distorted away from the equator in rectangular maps because we try to project the surface of a sphere onto a two dimensional rectangle, the Mercator projection. That is the key reason why we see the Goode projection (amongst others); the interrupted projection commonly used for world maps. It reminds me of someone peeling the Earth and spreading the peel flat.

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