{"id":1786154,"date":"2018-08-17T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786154"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:02:07","slug":"equal-earth-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/equal-earth-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Earth Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GISTEMP<\/a><\/p>\n

The Equal Earth projection is already getting some early traction: it was used by NASA in a surface temperature analysis map posted to Twitter<\/a> (above) and Ken Field’s using it in a forthcoming presentation<\/a>. Meanwhile, it now has its own proper web page<\/a>, where it has links for developers and cartographers.<\/p>\n

Previously: The Equal Earth Projection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Equal Earth projection is already getting some early traction: it was used by NASA in a surface temperature analysis map posted to Twitter (above) and Ken Field’s using it in a forthcoming presentation. Meanwhile,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1259,571],"class_list":["post-1786154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-equal-earth","tag-map-projections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786103,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/the-equal-earth-projection\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786154,"position":0},"title":"The Equal Earth Projection","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2014 cartographer Tom Patterson and his colleagues, Bojan \u0160avri\u010d and Bernhard Jenny, introduced the eponymous Patterson projection, a cylindrical projection that reduced polar exaggeration while maintaining the familiar shape of continents. 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