Boston Public Schools Adopt the Peters Projection World Map - A Brief Discussion

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3. As an Air Force navigator, we used Lambert conformals

This conic projection gave us a more or less accurate portrayal of a Great Circle route, which is the shortest distance between two points on the globe.

As far as an accurate, non-spherical projection which keeps the land masses in their correct size and shape, as well as portrays just how much of the world is water, I like Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean Worldmap, which maps the world onto a icosahedron:



When the globe is opened, it looks like this:



Cool, huh? (I've always wanted to post about map projections...)