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So long as it unavoidably comes in multiple variations, you can't really claim it's the One True Way of blending maps and that all other ways are obsolete. I think you seem to be missing the point. If you blend two conformal maps simply by averaging their coordinates, the resulting map will also be...

I had, in searches related to this most recent find, run across, once again, another map on a mysterious pseudocylindrical projection. But this one was from Canada. Just now, I managed to find a larger-scale image of the map, and I learned it's available under the Open Government License 2.0, which ...

If it makes you feel better, a while back there was a North Korean map on the Chinese polyconic-based projection to which I think I posted a link in this group.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1ht3szb/world_map_published_by_north_korea_in_2024_4096_x/

I decided to search for "North Korean Atlas" instead of "North Korean World Map", and I turned up a result which finally let me see a genuine world map from North Korea: https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea However, all is not quite well. I can't i...

Given that, is the use of the label "Tartary" to denote the land of the Tatars really so bad? I'm not claiming that there was anything wrong with using that geographical designation. I noted there's a claim that it fell into disuse, and that this ties into some rather preposterous claims ...

daan wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:34 pm You are welcome to include links.

Sorry;
http://www.quadibloc.com/maps/mps0404.htm
is the page on my site to which I was referring.

I bumped into a YouTube video which claimed that the ancient land of Tartary... disappeared from encyclopedias and the like in 1920. It turns out there's a pseudo-scientific theory claiming that several modern bridges in Russia are really ancient bridges from mediaeval Tartary that were made by a lo...

Didn't Carl Braun, a Jesuist priest, invent it along with his distortion-free equator version of the Cylindrical Stereographic back in 1867? At least I read about him creating another perspective cylindrical that was called the Pseudo-Mercator(the same name applied to Web-Mercator). I thought this ...

I was amused to be told that the primary reason for using Winkel in the earthquake map was that they liked its aspect ratio better for page display. I don't blame you for being amused. I noticed that the National Geographic used the original Winkel Tripel, and not Bartholomews' modification of it, ...

A friend of mine dragged me to the Reuse Centre in Edmonton, where I picked up a few free items as she picked up several for use in her craft activities. Among them were three issues of the National Geographic magazine. One of them was the one with a holographic cover that happened to be the one whe...