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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:37:38 GMT
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Hmmm...Surely Robinson wasn't the first one to solve the Greenland
problem.  Robinson isn't equal area either.  What about Albers
(equal-area but rather unattractive as a world map), Mollweide, Craster
Parabolic, Hammer-Aitoff, Boggs, or Eckert IV?  Eckert IV looks a lot
like Robinson (flat at the poles and elliptical inside),
but is equal-area.  Then there's the cylindrical equal area -- nice
because it preserves perpendicular lat/lon like Mercator -- one
variation is called the "Peters Projection," but as I recall, Peters
didn't invent it.

That being said, my condolences to the Robinson family, and I'm sorry I
don't know more about the geographers whose projections I use.

Does anyone know what prompted President Reagan and the Congress of that
era to designate the 3rd week of November as geography week, and the
Wednesday of that week as GIS Day? Was it Mercator's birthday or some
such?

Joe McCollum
Information Technology Specialist
Forest Inventory and Analysis
Knoxville, TN