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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.