{"id":4381,"date":"2017-04-28T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:35:14","slug":"the-penguin-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/the-penguin-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguin Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A world map tells a lot about the person who has made it, or about the market it is made for,” says\u00a0Frans Blok<\/a>. The edges of equatorial projections are determined so as to put the\u00a0map’s audience at the centre of the map:\u00a0European maps put the Bering Strait at the edges, Australian and Asian maps the Atlantic, American maps break Asia in two. If, however, only the polar regions were habitable\u2014or if you were making a map for penguins\u2014you might use a polar projection centred on Antarctica.<\/p>\n

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Frans Blok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“And no, for European use this map is less suitable. But there aren\u2019t that many penguins living here,” says Blok. [ICA<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A world map tells a lot about the person who has made it, or about the market it is made for,” says\u00a0Frans Blok. The edges of equatorial projections are determined so as to put the\u00a0map’s… 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":[841,571],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-antarctica","tag-map-projections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2620,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/in-defence-of-the-mercator-projection\/","url_meta":{"origin":4381,"position":0},"title":"In Defence of the Mercator Projection","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In a June 2015\u00a0piece for Al Jazeera America, history Ph.D. candidate Nick Danforth offered a contrarian opinion piece in defence of the Mercator projection. 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