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💧🌏 Greg Cocks1809 ‘Chart’: "Southern Celestial Hemisphere On The Plane Of The Equator:.. -- “On which is carefully defined the Boundaries of the Conftellations & all the Stars to the Sixth Magnitude inclufive. From the Aftronomical Catalogue of the Rev. M. Wollaston, F.R.S” -- <a href="https://www.atlascoelestis.com/Woll%20base%20per%20tavole.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.atlascoelestis.com/Woll%20base%20per%20tavole.htm</a> <-- details of the text and map(s) for astronomy students (in Italian) -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_celestial_hemisphere" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_celestial_hemisphere</a> <-- shared Southern Celestial Hemisphere wiki page -- My other ½ – an astrophysicist working currently in space weather – gave me this map/chart… Now I have to find someone to preserve and frame it - sheesh! ~smile~ <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/preserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preserve</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/frame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frame</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/teachingaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teachingaid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oldmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmap</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SouthernCelestialHemisphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthernCelestialHemisphere</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/stars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stars</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/starchart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starchart</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/celestialmapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#celestialmapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/observation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#observation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/charting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#charting</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgeeks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapgeeks</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapnerds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapnerds</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksNostalgia – Cartography & Projections On Network TV’s ‘West Wing’ -- <a href="https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083</a> -- Cool to see map geekiness pop up on network TV drama a few years back -- • I am NOT a fan of the the Galls Peters - thinking that the Equal Earth Projection (<a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a>) is vastly superior technically and ‘aesthetically pleasing’ • The 1569 Mercator projection was NOT designed as a ‘tool of cultural oppression’, that is a persistent myth - but rather was "... the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes...” • As a Trekkie, I also love that the actor John Billingsley - who plays Dr Flox - is the ‘lead scientist’… <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojections</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gischat</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WestWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestWing</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/networkTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#networkTV</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TV</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EqualEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EqualEarth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#representation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgeeks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapgeeks</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgeekiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapgeekiness</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercator</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhumblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhumblines</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/usecase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usecase</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/distance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#distance</a>

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