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BBC News: The map gap
BBC News had an interesting article today entitled The map gap. It covers familiar catographic ground on how we actually represent an ellipsoidal Earth on a flat piece of paper (Nice quote from Steve Chilton: "If you peel an orange, you can't lay it flat and there's never an answer to that"); first year geographers, this is exactly why we have a lecture on map projections and coordinate systems!...

posted on: Mon, 16 Oct | path: /GIS | permanent link to this entry