💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>The Impossible Map [video, 1947]<br>--<br><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nfb.ca/film/impossible_map/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <--link to video<br>--<br>[still an excellent teaching aid, and who doesn’t like the idea of mangling a grapefruit with a rolling pin?! (turnips not so much…) ~wink~ ]<br>“Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth...”<br>--<br>I also love this image from 1921 (!), still useful today, and when I used to teach a little it was part of my coursework… we are so visual…<br>Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojections</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coordinates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coordinates</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/training" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>training</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/onlinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinelearning</span></a><br>@thenfb</p>