November 12, 2004

World Sunlight Map

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Known as a rectangular projection, this map is one way of looking at the spherical Earth as a flat map. Both the size of continents and their shape get distorted as you move away from the equator. Compare this with a Mercator projection, which greatly distorts sizes in favor of keeping the shapes correct, or a Peters projection which distorts shapes but gives a true indication of relative size.

Posted by Chris at 6:54 AM





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