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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 07:53:36 -0800
From: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: GIS in the News!
Sender: Jennifer Stone Muilenburg <[log in to unmask]>



Interesting:

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To: "Central Puget Sound GIS Users"
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:33 AM
Subject: GIS in the News!


>
> For you TV viewers -
>
> NBC's (Channel 5) Political Drama, WEST WING Focuses on Peters Projection
> Map for Public Schools, On Feb. 28th (9PM EST)
>
> More information can be found at
>
> http://www.giscafe.com/NEWS/GISNews/20010226_nbc.html
>
> Does the Mercator Projection commonly used for school and other mass
> consumption maps (but invented by Gerhard Kremer in the 16th Century as an
> aid to maritime navigation) give us a distorted view of our importance in
> the world?  Check it out at
>
>
>
http://www.giscafe.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?http://www.diversophy.com/petersmap.
> htm
>


Jenny Stone Muilenburg
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Map Collection, University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900   Seattle, WA 98195-2900
phone: 206.543.2725
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