Difference between revisions of "Category:Bad Map Projections"

Randall has been into maps for a long time on xkcd. Especially he focused on map projections, where the map if projected onto a flat surface, in 977: Map Projections. Something that is not possible to do without distortion for a globes surface, like the Earth.

Long time after releasing a comment on 12 map projections in that first comic, which did not say the projections where bad, but clearly showed how different Earth's countries looks in different comics, he continues the list of projections in what turned out to be a series, of at least two comics.

However, these projections are not real projections, and they are all named "Bad Map Projection: (Name)". In the first two comics they even get a number indicating how many bad projections there are. So far they have the following numbers, listen in number order rather than release order:

#79: 1799: Bad Map Projection: Time Zones

#107: 1784: Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize

This may give promise of several more bad projections. Both the first two have been released using a similar six color scheme, like a political map with each country in a different color than it's closest neighbors.