{"id":695,"date":"2011-11-14T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2013-12-10T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T11:27:13","slug":"what-your-map-projection-says-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-your-map-projection-says-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What your map projection says about you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/977\/\">Today&#8217;s xkcd<\/a> features a sociology of map projections. Hilarious! :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/977\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-696\" title=\"What your favourite map projection says about you\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/xkcd_map_projections1.png\" width=\"595\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mercator? You&#8217;re not really into maps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take that, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Maps#Map_projection\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercator_projection#Uses\">Bing, Yahoo, Mapquest<\/a>, &#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>PS if you&#8217;re not an xkcd regular: Don&#8217;t miss the mouseover caption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s xkcd features a sociology of map projections. Hilarious! :) Mercator? You&#8217;re not really into maps. Take that, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Mapquest, &#8230;! PS if you&#8217;re not an xkcd regular: Don&#8217;t miss the mouseover caption. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-your-map-projection-says-about-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What your map projection says about you<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What your map projection says about you :D \u2013 hilarious: http:\/\/wp.me\/p1qYOj-bd","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,51,52,71,72,91],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-cartography","tag-fun","tag-geo","tag-mapping","tag-mapping-portal","tag-projection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/xkcd_map_projections.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-bd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}