Xkcd Map Projections

Xkcd Map Projections. Xkcd What If His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel. Robinson as a map that was supposed to look nice and is often used for classroom maps

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. Advantages: The Robinson projection is neither equal-area nor conformal, abandoning both for a compromise.

xkcd Map Projections

Especially he focused on map projections, which are various ways to show the Earth on a flat surface, as in 977: Advantages: The Robinson projection is neither equal-area nor conformal, abandoning both for a compromise. National Geographic switched to this projection in 1988, and used it for ten years, switching to the Winkel-Tripel in 1998.

explain xkcd. 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). Especially he focused on map projections, which are various ways to show the Earth on a flat surface, as in 977:

xkcd Bad Map Projection Time Zones. The latest in Randall Munroe's Bad Map Projection series on xkcd is perhaps his most evil yet: it turns all longitudes positive—i.e., it turns west longitude into east longitude, putting Quebec somewhere in Kazakhstan and the Panama Canal off Sri Lanka. Putting Europe in the middle as in the xkcd and linked Wikipedia maps looks "different" to us