{"id":1787077,"date":"2019-02-06T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787077"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:09:38","slug":"equal-earth-physical-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Earth Physical Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Sunday Tom Patterson announced<\/a> that the Equal Earth Physical Map<\/a> is now available for download in JPEG, Illustrator and GeoTIF formats. Unlike its political counterpart<\/a>, no territorial boundaries appear on this map (though cities do). Not having borders doesn’t mean that Tom and his collaborators won’t get into trouble with the names of natural features, though: I note they use Sea of Japan<\/em> rather than East Sea<\/em>, for example (see above). But, importantly, they’ve released the map into the public domain: if you don’t like their labels, or their choice of cities or colours or textures, you can make changes to the map and put out your own version.<\/p>\n

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

On Sunday Tom Patterson announced that the Equal Earth Physical Map is now available for download in JPEG, Illustrator and GeoTIF formats. 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