too – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 03 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg too – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Mercator: Extreme https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/05/mercator-extreme/ Tue, 03 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1807162 More]]> To follow-up on xkcd’s Madagascator cartoon (previously), I missed the fact that clicking on the cartoon at the xkcd website actually did something, but Keir caught it: it links to Drew Roos’s Mercator: Extreme, an online tool that allows you to have some fun with the Mercator projection’s excessive polar distortion by making any point on the planet the North Pole and which clearly served as Randall’s inspiration.

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