Nostalgia – Cartography & Projections On Network TV’s ‘West Wing’
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https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083
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Cool to see map geekiness pop up on network TV drama a few years back
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• I am NOT a fan of the the Galls Peters - thinking that the Equal Earth Projection (https://equal-earth.com/) is vastly superior technically and ‘aesthetically pleasing’
• The 1569 Mercator projection was NOT designed as a ‘tool of cultural oppression’, that is a persistent myth - but rather was "... the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes...”
• As a Trekkie, I also love that the actor John Billingsley - who plays Dr Flox - is the ‘lead scientist’…
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