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RE: Mercator projection, the Comic Sans of map projections
Canada and Russia are a lot smaller than everyone thinks, aren't they?
My wife's grandfather invented a map projection called Chamberlin Trimetric Projection. It is used for plotting the trajectories of objects falling from high altitude. They used it during the Apollo missions to plot the landing sites for the astronauts coming back from the Moon.
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Never heard of that one! Had to look it up and it is definitely an interesting approach I had never heard of. Another great example of the wide variety of different approaches to solve the projection problem.