look like. This unique view separates the globe into a completely different and almost eccentric shape which maintains the fundamental idea of positioning the north pole near to the central point of the world map but this time it splits up the south pole into the two ends of the map and spreads out the gaps between the continents, allowing for its distinctive shape.
Our final example is perhaps one of the most interesting projections in terms of its use in today’s society as one of the few maps in this list to actually be implemented into daily use. The Azimuthal projection is used on the United Nations flag with the idea that this projection is the least biased when compared to many other projections as it centralises on the international date line. However, it is limited by the fact that Antarctica is, in fact, not portrayed at all as the map is cut off at a latitude of 60 degrees south.
https://www.mapthematics.com/ProjectionsList. php?Projection=124 Other cartographers have taken measures to ensure that their projections display the countries as being accurately placed and distributed. One instance of this includes Goode’s Homolosine. This projection, having been compared to an orange peel, works by implementing ‘interruptions’ into the spaces within the oceans. Although, perhaps similar in appearance to the previous example, Goode’s Homolosine is able to retain the size and proportions of the Earth’s land masses.
https://www.un.org/en/sections/about-un/un-logo-and-flag/ index.html Through this short look at some of the innovative ideas for projections of the world map we are already able to see the flaws within the standard projection that most of us are very used to and even the imperfections that may have helped to alter our outlook on the world in a negative light. In my opinion it is very interesting to see both how what could be described as subliminal content has been widely accepted all over the world but also that it was only in the last few decades that a suitable alternative was created.
Bibliography
John Paul Goode’s projection of the map of the world (1925) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goode_homolosine_projection
Capek, R. (2001, August). Which is the best projection for the world map. In Proceedings of the 20th international Cartographic Conference (Vol. 5, pp. 3084-3093).
However, the first cartographer to be able to achieve a projection with both accurate land proportions as well as oceanic proportions was the Japanese cartographer, Hajime Narukawa, in 1999, with his Authagraph projection. His concept was to split the Earth into 96 triangles instead of using the familiar spherical shape. This method therefore allows the projection to be unfolded into the shape of a rectangle.
Hinks, A. R. (1940). Maps of the world on an oblique Mercator projection. The Geographical Journal, 95(5), 381-383. Snyder, J. P. (1990). The Robinson projection—a computation algorithm. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 17(4), 301-305.
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