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    Re: Question about LEGOz for LUGMAP. —Peter White
   (...) Good work Eric, and a very timely idea. One question though, the map you use as a basis for your map has a very skewed projection in favour of the area towards the arctic circle. Greenland is not as big as South America ! Who commissioned this (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
   
        Re: Question about LEGOz for LUGMAP. —Kerry Raymond
    (...) king (...) These are Mercator projections, I think (URL) Are there any maps about that show a true scale between continents ? Yes, there are other projections. One of my favourites (whose name I can't remember) preserves the relative sizes of (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
   
        Re: Question about LEGOz for LUGMAP. —Kerry Raymond
   See (URL) for a variety of projection styles. (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
   
        Re: Question about LEGOz for LUGMAP. —Peter White
   (...) We should just cut and paste the small Greenland onto the map used now. ;-) pete.w (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org)
 

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