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Re: twisted map followup
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Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:54:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Here's a quick follow-up to the matter of Arno Peters as a shameless
> self-promoter and his map as not novel. Here's an article that's
> rather well-written and goes over the general points (including
> why the Peters/Gall maps aren't really that useful):
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> http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa030201a.htm
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> In a way, it does support Peters in showing that the map--in this
> case Peters's--is highly political. He pretends it's the hottest
> thing since sliced bread, hoping that fact will follow assertion
> if he repeats it often enough. I sympathize with his ostensible
> goal, but again, shameless self-promotion seems to be the *real* one.
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> (But it's neat to see how contentious and un-boring the field of
> cartography can be!)
hehe thanks for the link. I had no idea of the controversies going WRT
*maps* :-)
As a junior high schooler who really only know about the Mercator, the equal
area map was quite a mind-blower. I do agree, though, that it really makes a
crappy wall map, being grossly distorted enough on its own. My actual favorite
"projections" are these:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
I love a good pic from space:-)
-John
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