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cousin_it
on Nov 17, 2008
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Strange Maps: Did you realize Africa is this big?
As a map nut I take this opportunity to plug the Winkel-Tripel projection that National Geographic chose ten years ago. It's quite beautifully balanced despite being neither equal-area nor equal-angle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Winkel-tripel-projection....
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