xkcd: What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You

This week, our love for all things mapped was shared by Randall Munroe. The physicist-turned web comic illustrator created xkcd in 2005, and has since expressed daily scenarios and dilemmas in doodles. On Monday, in celebration of mathematician and creator of the Waterman "Butterfly" World Map Projection creator Steve Waterman, Munroe proposed...

By Claire Lawton

November 16, 2011

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This week, our love for all things mapped was shared by Randall Munroe.

The physicist-turned web comic illustrator created xkcd in 2005, and has since expressed daily scenarios and dilemmas in doodles.

On Monday, in celebration of mathematician and creator of the Waterman "Butterfly" World Map Projection creator Steve Waterman, Munroe proposed and drew a guide to: What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You.

Get your answer after the jump ...

Check out more by Munroe at xkcd.

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