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		fishtoaster on Nov 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Eart... 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 [–]

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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