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Probably someone googled “Which is the best map projection?” and didn’t spent a lot of time reading the results.Two or three minutes at most.

First of all: Thank you for addressing this matter, PeteD! Having said that, excluding projections based on their aspect ratio does seem a bit arbitrary I agree, especially since this would exclude the circular Lagrange but not the one that Geocart renders by default . and I wouldn't be averse to a ...

Sorry, I’m not quite getting the idea here.
Why are there white coastlines in the oceans?

Note: I see that they are where they would be on a August map in standard aspect, but I don’t understand why they are shown.

To me, it still looks like a mermaid with her hands on her hips, but if Tobias struggled to see the mermaid with its features highlighted in different colours, I guess he has no chance now. No, I can see it much better now! :D Apparently, the colours that you used to highlight the features were act...

Not a new projection but a novel aspect of the azimuthal equidistant in which mainland Europe looks a bit like a mermaid sitting on a rock with her hands on her hips As much as I try, I do not see the mermaid. :cry: On a less whimsical note, this aspect highlights the symmetry of the Scandinavian a...

Wait, does German use diaresis? Not “officially” – e.g. any German dictionary will give you the spelling Aleuten instead of Alëuten . But it’s not uncommon to use the diaresis in foreign names to indicate that it’s not pronounced like the German diphthong. I know that "i" can't take an um...

Could it instead be that he pointed it out because many readers might naturally assume an -ow ending since this is common for German transliterations of Russian names, e.g. Romanow, Tschechow, Pawlow, Chruschtschow, Gorbatschow (English: Romanov, Chekhov, Pavlov, Khrushchev, Gorbachev)? In contrast...

Is Aitoff/Aïtoff a French transliteration of name, while Aitov/Aitow is a direct transliteration? Both Winkel and Wagner wrote Aïtoff so I doubt this is a French (-only) transliteration. One of them (I think it was Winkel but I’d have to check) pointed out somewhere that the spelling Aitow should n...

I’d add Goode homolosine to your list – I don’t think that it is used very often, but IF there’s an “interrupted” world map, it’s always this one. I stand corrected. I do have an atlas that uses an interrupted population density map. I don’t know why – as mentioned above, a density map should alway...

Because I do think it's a pretty common choice when people don't want to think about it too hard and are just in a rush to pick something quick and easy to use, especially when people want a rectangular map (whether for aesthetic reasons or because they actually need the cylindrical wraparound effe...