-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: sue hawkins has sent you an article from npr.org] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:37:38 GMT From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ 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