Xkcd Map Projections

Xkcd Map Projections. Xkcd Map Projections World Map 07 It's also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once

xkcd Map Projections
xkcd Map Projections from xkcd.com

The latest in Randall Munroe's Bad Map Projection series on xkcd is perhaps his most evil yet: it turns all longitudes positive—i.e., it turns west longitude into east longitude, putting Quebec somewhere in Kazakhstan and the Panama Canal off Sri Lanka. It came one and a half year after the third 2256: Bad Map Projection: South America (#358), and was followed about 10 months later by 2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator (#248).

xkcd Map Projections

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License Randall has been into maps for a long time on xkcd His site has posters of his map, plus maybe the world's only Winkel.

XKCD Bad Map Projection with PostGIS Crunchy Data Blog. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License Robinson as a map that was supposed to look nice and is often used for classroom maps

XKCD on Map Projections Maps. National Geographic switched to this projection in 1988, and used it for ten years, switching to the Winkel-Tripel in 1998. Randall Munroe, "Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)," xkcd, 26 Jul 2023