...Map Projections]], it was stated that those who preferred the {{w|Dymaxion map|Dymaxion projection}} would wear shoes with toes. And later in [[1735: Fash
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{{comicsrow|977|2011-11-14|Map Projections}}
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| number = 977
| title = Map Projections
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#REDIRECT [[977: Map Projections]]
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#REDIRECT [[977: Map Projections]]
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...death}}. The sunglasses joke was also used in the title text of [[977: Map Projections]]. The counts of each letter (Y E A H) in the scream are 1, 6, 6, and 6, wh
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...mate location in the U.S., and two arrows point west and east from it. The map uses a format, popular in America, that places the American continents cent
...to make a {{w|sextant}} work as a tool to calculate accurate position for map making.
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...inuous manner. [[Randall]] was playing on projections before in [[977: Map Projections]].
...nt off DST and parts of the northern hemisphere went onto it; however, the map failed to change on the morning of March 9 as it should have (to recognize
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This map shows the total {{w|surface area}}s of all {{w|terrestrial planet}}s, {{w|d
...red by oceans are also included in the surface area of the Earth (i.e. the map shows the Earth's {{w|Crust (geology)|crust}}). An extra layer of 3–4&nbs
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| title = Upside-Down Map
...r global influence. Early maps had eastern Asia oriented at the top of the map, beyond Israel and the Holy Land in the middle, and western Europe at the b
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...people who likes the {{w|Dymaxion map|Dymaxion projection}} in [[977: Map Projections]] as well as in the title text of [[296: Tony Hawk]]. || || || || Segway PT
| 977 || [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/3/38/1000_Comics_-_The_third_ze
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| title = Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize
| titletext = This map preserves the shapes of Tissot's indicatrices pretty well, as long as you d
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| title = Bad Map Projection: Time Zones
...Resize]] (#107). It was followed almost three years later with [[2256: Bad Map Projection: South America]] (#358).
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"What a useful thing a pocket-map is!" I remarked.
...carried it much further than ''you''. What do you consider the ''largest'' map that would be really useful?"
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...itting presented doesn't make any sense. The graphs could represent a star map, the votes for the latest elected presidents, or your recent invoices on po
*This comic is similar to [[977: Map Projections]] which also uses a scientific method not commonly thought about by the gen
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...ht direction in the real world - a very useful feature if you're using the map for navigating. However, preserving the angle leads to severe distortions o
...jections are generally {{w|continuous function}}s, meaning that they never map a {{w|disconnected space}} onto a connected one and therefore can never giv
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***There's a larger version of this map [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here] (Colorado is [http://xkcd.com/1079/color
***There's a larger version of this map [http://xkcd.com/1079/large/ here]! It's also available as a [https://store
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This comic depicts a map of the world using the {{w|Winkel tripel projection}}, comparing the thickn
...e also under sea level (the continental shelf). These are the areas on the map that are marked as having thicker ground that appear to be over the ocean (
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| title = Bad Map Projection: South America
...he first). And was first followed one and a half year later by [[2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special]] (#299).
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...milar in idea to [[977: Map Projections]], where it was your choice of map projections that could tell something about you.
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Whereas beforehand the world is directly represented upon a simply contiguous map, the {{w|Robinson projection}}, it is now changed to one (which is actually
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| title = Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude)
...#152: ABS(Longitude). It came about 15 months after the fifth [[2613: Bad Map Projection: Madagascator]] (#248).
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...cause of raw geographical fact (and perhaps a ''little'' bit of [[977: Map Projections|cartographic bias]]).
...ans “little,” and “Wyoming,” making fun of how small it is on this map, since Wyoming appears last on the alphabetical list of states.
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| '''Projection of Earth'''<br/><code>earth-map</code>
...get there by follow the sign on the hollow planet or launch from the Earth map monument on Origin.
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