----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Most of you remember this one..but in the USGS Professional Paper 1453 (An Album of Map Projections) there is a projection very suitable for today.... so if you forgot to get your sweetheart a card (like I did!!) ...this one will do in a pinch... figure 47B, p. 115 is the Werner Projection (shaped like a heart) Cheers James --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The more complex and sophisticated our systems of lateral access, the more we sacrifice in the way of depth." Sven Birkerts (in The Gutenberg Elegies, 1995) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Boxall (Map Curator) Map Collection, Science Services Killam Library, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4M8 (t) 902-494-3757 (f) 902-494-2062 (e) [log in to unmask] Host Site for the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives 1996 Annual Meeting http://is.dal.ca/~gsbrown/acmla96.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- "What in observation is loose and vague is in information deceptive and treacherous" Francis Bacon, 1621 ---------------------------------------------------------------------