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cstanleytech

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8. I think I could easily learn to adapt to that one, the first proposed one just didnt feel

Reply to LastLiberal in PalmSprings (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:40 PM

Mar 2017

anymore realistic to me than the old one we used in school but the one you are showing looks the best imo especially with how it renders Antarctica which always looked weird before.

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Boston Public Schools Adopt the Peters Projection World Map - A Brief Discussion [View all] derby378 Mar 2017 OP

Life imitating art nycbos Mar 2017 #1

I thought of this scene right away, too. LOL emmadoggy Mar 2017 #2

YES! elleng Mar 2017 #6

One of the best volstork Mar 2017 #10

As an Air Force navigator, we used Lambert conformals LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2017 #3

I think I could easily learn to adapt to that one, the first proposed one just didnt feel cstanleytech Mar 2017 #8

Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Airocean Worldmap is the best! As he'd often say, it shows FailureToCommunicate Mar 2017 #9

Would be cool to have a full set of 5 maps VWolf Mar 2017 #13

this is why they did it...shocking (and fun) oldcynic Mar 2017 #4

Sure was useful, during the Cold War for Russia/USSR to be a huge, looming visual threat... Crash2Parties Mar 2017 #5

What's the purpose of the loud distractiing music? rickford66 Mar 2017 #7

the background music has got to go! pfitz59 Mar 2017 #11

Amen ronatchig Mar 2017 #14

You're not the first one to complain about the music derby378 Mar 2017 #15

Just use a freaking globe. VWolf Mar 2017 #12