All things Maps

What is a map?

• Most Annoying Parent

• Maybe a Potato

• Visual representation of the earth's surface

• No clue?!

What's wrong with the Mercator projection?

• Nothing, it's a perfect representation of earth.

• Close to the poles, the sizes of countries is too big

• Close to the poles, the sizes of countries is too small

• Close to the equator, the sizes of countries is too big.

What's wrong with the Robinson projection?

• Close to the equator, the countries are too small

• Nothing, it's perfect.

• Close to the poles, the sizes of countries is too big

• Close to the equator, the countries are too big

Which distortions does the Winkel Tripel projection address?

• size, shape, direction

• area, direction, distance

• area, size, direction

• distance, color, shape

What's special about the Gall Peters projection?

• All countries have the correct sizes relative to the equator

• All countries have the correct sizes relative to the USA

• All countries have the correct sizes relative to each other

• All countries have the correct sizes relative to the poles

What's wrong with the Gall Peters projection?

• It distorts the shapes of countries

• It distorts the sizes of countries

• It distorts the location of countries

What's unique about the Peirce quincuncial projection?

• It's flattened along the south pole.

• It's flattened along the north pole.

What's cool about the AuthaGraph projection

• It preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans

• It puts Asia in the middle of the earth

• It has the same distortions as Mercator

A political map shows...

• where vegetables grows in the world

• geographic boundaries between governmental units

• information about the world

• most or all of the surface of the earth

A World Map shows...

• most or all of the surface of the earth.

• details of countries

• mostly used in basic education

• shows governmental units