[odf-discuss] Map of the Results

[J David Eisenberg]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Carlos Moffat wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 00:57 +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > > Oh, no. Completely different map. See attached.
> > 
> > Oh, totally different indeed.
> > 
> > Hhm. I always find this projection so disconcerting. It makes Canada and 
> > Greenland look enormous. It makes Canada look twice the size of the US 
> > and Greenland the size of South America.
> > 

Try this page from Wikimedia; it's a Robinson projection, which is 
neither equal area nor angle-preserving, but does a better job of land 
mass than Mercator.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BlankMap-World6.svg

Drawn in Inkscape; looks great in batik (xml.apache.org/batik), 

Bonus: each country is in a separate path description, so colorising one
country is a fairly easy task; just add some class descriptions to the 
stylesheet.

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J. David Eisenberg  http://catcode.com/