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xianshou
on Nov 15, 2011
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The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Eart...
A shame this came out too late to be added to XKCD's "Map Projections" comic. I'd call it the "Manhattan Uzbekistan Projection."
fishtoaster
on Nov 15, 2011
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If I understand map projections correctly
, isn't this just whatever projection google maps uses (Mercator) with an overlay?
I probably don't really.
hrldcpr
on Nov 15, 2011
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Yes this is definitely just Mercator. But you could reproject in a Manhattan-relative way, such that this larger grid actually looks like a grid (just like latitude and longitude do in Mercator) and that might be a... pointless new projection.
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