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Following a widespread controversy about the adequacy of cylindrical world maps for teaching, Rand McNally, the traditional atlas publisher, requested the distinguished cartographer and educator Arthur H. Robinson to develop a new map projection with reduced overall distortion and a simple, uninterrupted graticule.
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During the 20th century, the National Geographic Society, various atlases, and classroom wall cartographers switched to the rounded Robinson Projection. The Robinson Projection is a projection that purposely makes various aspects of the map sightly distorted to produce an attractive world map.
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For this projection, only one standard parallel is specified. The other standard parallel is the same latitude with the opposite sign. The standard parallel is by definition fixed ... This projection was presented by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963, and is also called the Orthophanic projection, which means right appearing.
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For this projection, only one standard parallel is specified. The other standard parallel is the same latitude with the opposite sign. The standard parallel is by definition fixed ... This projection was presented by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963, and is also called the Orthophanic projection, which means right appearing.
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a world atlas of facts flags and maps including every continent, country, dependency, exotic destination, island, major city, ocean, province, state & territory on the planet! ... View a detailed map of that continent here; In Europe students are still taught that there are only six continents, as they combine North America...
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a world atlas of facts flags and maps including every continent, country, dependency, exotic destination, island, major city, ocean, province, state & territory on the planet! ... PRINT THIS MAP;
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Robinson Map Projection; November 16, 2004 5:53 AM Subscribe ... Arthur Robinson diedlast week. He is famous for the Robinson Projection which compromised on the Greenland problem of while being (IMO) more pleasing than the Peters Map. The map was widely used by the National Geographic Society in the 70s and 80s making...
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To this day, no other projection uses this approach to build a map. Form: ; The Robinson projection can best be described as being pseudocylindrical, but given its unique method of development, it does not fall perfectly into any known form category.
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www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib/robinson_projection.html
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Get World Outline Blank Map in Robinson Projection ... Home > Projection Maps > Robinson > World Blank Map ... Miller Projection || Robinson Projection || World Cruises || Honeymoon Destinations || Blank World Map...
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