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  • Choosing the Right Way to Flatten the Earth

    The art and science of drawing our 3D Earth on to a 2D sheet of paper or computer monitor is worthy of a book. Unfortunately, I've only got a few hundred words. As a result, I'm going to largely concentrate on a single, controversial choice: the Mercator…

  • Minimalist Maps: Are They a Good Idea?

    Data maps are everywhere. And it's not just the conventional ones that use Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps or Bing Maps to show the underlying geographical information. Cartograms, "maps" with land masses resized based on data, are quite popular. I'm…

  • Mercator projection

    hi there--

    i'm trying to use XamGeographicMap to display data from some shape files that use what i'm assuming are mercator coordinates; there is a .prj file that says: WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere. in the past we were able to do this with…