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Re: appropriate map projection]]
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"Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:32:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: appropriate map projection]
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:33:59 GMT
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The Peters is one version of the cylindrical equal area.  You could
tinker with CEA but it's just a matter of shifting the shape distortion
from the poles to somewhere else on the map.

The other one that shows the whole world is Albers, based on a cone.  If
you unroll the cone you get either a semi-circle or semi-annulus; this
may be displeasing to the eye as well, or not.

Lambert Azimuthal is equal area, based on a plane -- however it cannot
show the whole world.

You might like the world on an unfolded icosahedron -- Snyder's was
equal-area; Buckminster Fuller's was not quite equal area.

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