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💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data<br>--<br><a href="https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">leventhalmap.org/digital-exhib</span><span class="invisible">itions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/</span></a> <-- dynamic views of different projections<br>--<br>Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!<br>--<br>Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/teachingaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachingaids</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a></p>
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>The Impossible Map [video, 1947]<br>--<br><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <--link to video<br>--<br>[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]<br>“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”<br>--<br>I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…<br>Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coordinates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coordinates</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/training" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>training</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/onlinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinelearning</span></a><br>@thenfb</p>
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛<p>An overview of Justin Kunimune's "danseiji", "elastic Earth", world map projections, a style of projection which allows the use of individual stretching of specified areas rather than one uniform formula for the whole globe.</p><p>The most interesting to me is "Danseiji IV", a projection that is inspired by Dymaxion but looks a bit more organic.</p><p><a href="https://www.blog.map-projections.net/the-danseiji-projections" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">blog.map-projections.net/the-d…</a></p><p>Direct link to Kunimune's work:<br><a href="https://kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/introducing-the-danseiji-projections/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">kunimune.home.blog/2019/11/07/…</a></p><p><a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=MapProjections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapProjections</span></a><br><a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=danseiji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danseiji</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=danseijiIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danseijiIV</span></a><br><a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=dymaxion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dymaxion</span></a> <a href="https://libranet.de/search?tag=DymaxionProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DymaxionProjection</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Nostalgia – Cartography & Projections On Network TV’s ‘West Wing’<br>--<br><a href="https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z</span><span class="invisible">-_KopnQ083</span></a><br>--<br>Cool to see map geekiness pop up on network TV drama a few years back<br>--<br> • I am NOT a fan of the the Galls Peters - thinking that the Equal Earth Projection (<a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">equal-earth.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) is vastly superior technically and ‘aesthetically pleasing’<br> • The 1569 Mercator projection was NOT designed as a ‘tool of cultural oppression’, that is a persistent myth - but rather was "... the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes...”<br> • As a Trekkie, I also love that the actor John Billingsley - who plays Dr Flox - is the ‘lead scientist’…<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WestWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestWing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/networkTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>networkTV</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EqualEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EqualEarth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>representation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgeeks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapgeeks</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgeekiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapgeekiness</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercator</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhumblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhumblines</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/usecase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usecase</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shape</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>area</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/distance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>distance</span></a></p>
Adamas Nemesis<p>Get a load of this map of how much of humanity is in your personal hemisphere. Kinda impressive how remote my abode, the United States, is compared to most other countries. Guess us Americans just get used to the idea of flying nearly-antipodal distances to reach most people. Hmm.</p><p><a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojections</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/demography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demography</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/population" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>population</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/thoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughts</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/demographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demographics</span></a></p>
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