Xkcd Map Projections

Xkcd Map Projections. XKCD on Map Projections Maps His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel. It came one and a half year after the third 2256: Bad Map Projection: South America (#358), and was followed about 10 months later by 2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator (#248).

xkcd Bad Map Projection The Greenland Special
xkcd Bad Map Projection The Greenland Special from xkcd.com

It's also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf Robinson as a map that was supposed to look nice and is often used for classroom maps

xkcd Bad Map Projection The Greenland Special

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. Map Projections (alt-text) What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not It's also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf

xkcd The Map Room. The 25 March 2024 xkcd honours Greenland's place as a measure of cartographic distortion National Geographic switched to this projection in 1988, and used it for ten years, switching to the Winkel-Tripel in 1998.

Xkcd Map Projections World Map 07. Map Projections (alt-text) What's that? You think I don't like the Peters map because I'm uncomfortable with having my cultural assumptions challenged? Are you sure you're not His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel.