[talk-au] North Star Award

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> the original.
> it expands the size of europe compared t all the colonised
> lands
> opinion of Arno Peters
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Peters

That might be a side effect, but I don't think there is a good way to flatten the earth without making it into a weird shape like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

The downside to that is it would make lat/lon to x/y very complex.