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>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:02:14 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: Bradley Gano <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8284.1 (!) Upside-down maps
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The one on the WW episode was the upside-down Peters projection. (Peters is
the one that shows that Africa actually is much bigger than Texas and that
it turns out many of us life much farther north than we thought we did.)
Most of the upside-down ones I'd found online before are the more
traditional Van der Grinten or similar projections.
I did just find at least one search result in Google that offered the
inverted Peters projection--
http://odt.org/mcart/index.cgi?code=3&cat=1
(The site actually says, "This map is the closest you can get to the Peters
map that was shown inverted on the West Wing TV show in March 2001.")
Brad
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> >Subject: RE: #8271.12 (!) facility artwork
> >Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:16:32 -0400
> >Thread-Topic: #8271.12 (!) facility artwork
> >thread-index: AcalEkDz8uMYehOVT2S7piQNiAOV8wAoClPg
> >From: "Dente, Edmund N." <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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>Good question. Can anyone help with this? A little large for Photoshop,
>I guess.
>Ed
> >
> >
> > Hi Ed --
> > Where can one get the "upside down" map? There was a
> > wonderful West Wing episode about that, in which CJ was lectured by a
> > group calling themselves "Geographers for Social Equality", who argued
>
> > that having North America and Europe at "the top" and Africa and Latin
>
> > America at "the bottom" privileged the more developed
> > countries. It was very well done --
> >
> > Nina
> >
> > At 01:58 PM 7/10/2006, you wrote:
> > >--- Forwarded Message from "Dente, Edmund N." <[log in to unmask]>
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> > > >Subject: RE: #8271.9 (!) facility artwork
> > > >Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:07:01 -0400
> > > >Thread-Topic: #8271.9 (!) facility artwork
> > > >thread-index: AcahTgX8GHMqLg5xRCa3ibNvw+ef4AAdizMA
> > > >From: "Dente, Edmund N." <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information
>Forum"
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> > >Which reminds me that the map display that always draws the most
> > >interest is the one displaying the world from south at top to north
>at
> > >bottom (i.e., "upside down") rather than the traditional way, which,
> > >after all, is purely arbitrary -- viewed from space there is no up or
>
> > >down.
> > >Imagine that lab wall with an "upside down" map to make a point about
>
> > >assumptions!
> > >Ed
> > >
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> > > > --- Forwarded Message from "Margo Burns" <[log in to unmask]> ---
> > > >
> > > > >Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:30:14 -0400
> > > > >Subject: Re: #8271.7 (!) facility artwork
> > > > >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information
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> > > > >From: "Margo Burns" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > >References: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >
> > > > In my last lab, we had wallpaper with a map of the world on one
>entire
> > > > wall. It always got great comments.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Margo
> > > >
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