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Post by huojin on Jun 8, 2016 1:00:58 GMT
Just something I've noticed, that the AH and AH-spawned communities love using the Winkel-Tripel map projection. Yes, NatGeo uses it, and yeah it's supposed to reduce distortion, but I've never been a huge fan of it. Mostly because it makes India, Africa, and South America look kinda weird. Elongated and disproportionate south of the Equator.
Though I've gotta say, at times the AH-spawned maps look more like a half-and-half of Winkel and Robinson, since North America and Europe and... pretty much everywhere north of the Equator looks as it does in the Robinson projection.
I dunno. Thoughts on why there's such a fascination with it? Also ITT: general map projection talking and geekiness.
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Post by Krall on Jun 8, 2016 15:20:20 GMT
Can you point out any examples? I'm not sure I've ever seen an AH map made with the Winkel-Tripel projection - most seem to use the Robinson projection.
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Post by huojin on Jun 9, 2016 23:27:28 GMT
I'm not sure it is the Robinson projection, Krall. Look: Second map just borrowed from Pessimal in the Maps thread. Look how much narrower everything is, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Most noticeable on South America, Australia, and the Arabian Peninsula in my view, but it's also there in sub-Saharan Africa and India, amongst other places.
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Post by Krall on Jun 9, 2016 23:53:18 GMT
I'm not sure it is the Robinson projection, Krall. Look: Second map just borrowed from Pessimal in the Maps thread. Look how much narrower everything is, particularly in the southern hemisphere. Most noticeable on South America, Australia, and the Arabian Peninsula in my view, but it's also there in sub-Saharan Africa and India, amongst other places. I think that's just because the second image is smaller. I opened both up in Paint.NET and enlarged the second map, and everything on it fits perfectly with the first one (apart from Hawai'i). It's certainly not using a Winkel tripel projection, which looks wildly different to me.
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