{"id":1788898,"date":"2020-06-17T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788898"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:08:09","slug":"the-topologists-map-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/the-topologists-map-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Topologist’s Map of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom created the Topologist\u2019s Map of the World<\/a> to show how countries connect to each other. Deliberately emulating the style of a T-O map, Tom started with a Voronoi diagram and finished the map in Inkscape. Exclaves are ignored (too complicated), and islands encircle the rest of the map. Among Tom\u2019s observations: \u201cSome countries get really distorted\u2014mostly when they find themselves near the centre of a continent. I\u2019d often thought of Germany as the centre of Europe, but here, Austria and Hungary get really stretched out because they end up bordering countries on opposite sides of the continent.\u201d [r\/MapPorn<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom created the Topologist\u2019s Map of the World to show how countries connect to each other. Deliberately emulating the style of a T-O map, Tom started with a Voronoi diagram and finished the map in… 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":[233],"tags":[1327],"class_list":["post-1788898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-borders","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788843,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/tom-pattersons-physical-map-of-the-contiguous-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788898,"position":0},"title":"Tom Patterson’s Physical Map of the Contiguous United States","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 May 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Tom Patterson\u2019s latest project is a map of the physical features of the contiguous United States. 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