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I am red-faced now! Because all the atlas maps in the Monarch World Atlas, except for one of Canada on a conic projection, were on the Mercator projection, I had simply assumed, all the way from childhood, that the world map was also on the Mercator projection. But just now, as I was taking a closer...

How are the domes over Eurasia arranged? You can tell from the curvature of the meridians that the map won't work if you simpe glue the left edge to the right edge like you can for the cylindrical portion. Yes, you're right. On the left of the map, the dome has 100 degrees East longitude as its sta...

The Van der Grinten III projection is the one where the parallels are horizontal lines, at the positions the parallels of the original Van der Grinten projection intersect the central meridian. I have noted on my web page that the Van der Grinten projection, along with the Van der Grinten IV project...

If you can replace the Chinese government with a more benevolent one that's still ethnically Chinese, then you can do that with Russia, too. Unless you believe that Russians are all genetically-inferior subhumans who need to be rounded into concentration camps and gassed. Also, the United States ar...

If I were dictator of the world, I'd go for a global phase-out of fossil fuels to stop Siberia's land and resources making Russia a great power. This might have other benefits too. Taking Siberia away from Russia would just set the stage for a Russian war of reconquest. Oh, indeed, fossil fuels mus...

Would you also give Korea Manchuria? It makes little sense to me to give them any part of Siberia without also giving them Manchuria, since that leads to a disconnected territory. If I wanted to give Sakhalin to someone that isn't Russia, Japan would make more sense. Well, Sakhalin was part of Japa...

Incidentally, Copp Clark had both a map of Canada on the Simple Conic, and a map of the world on the Mercator Projection handy because they printed maps of these two types which adorned the walls of classrooms across Canada. Now, we've all heard of the deleterious effects of constant exposure to map...

I think I actually saw that map with the birds in my recent web searches! (That is, not your drawing, but your inspiration.) Anyways, funny you mention the Baker dinomic. I ran across that recently, and it reminded me of the world map in the infamous Monarch Flour Atlas. This atlas was available in ...

Yes, I remember that the last time I was dealing with this question, I found I needed a working Linux machine handy to run the program that would take an image file where grayscale indicated elevation, and convert it to a shaded relief; that was one other thing I considered trying. It seemed logical...

While there are public domain relief map datums including bathymetry available, for some reason, the ones I have found have tended not to be as... dramatic as the famous ocean floor map that Marie Tharp was instrumental in creating. I looked around to see if I could find other maps based on that map...