Mercator projection with pole shifted to where you liv
▻http://flowingdata.com/2014/06/09/mercator-projection-pole-shifts-to-where-you-live
Drew Roos made a thing that lets you move the poles of the Mercator projection to anywhere in the world.
▻http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme
As you probably know, map projections all have their pros and cons since there are challenges that come with transforming a globe onto a two-dimensional surface. The Mercator projection, one of the most well-known, distorts as you approach the poles. The scale approaches infinity actually, which is why we’re used to seeing a Greenland that is bigger than Africa. (It’s not.)
Above shows the pole shifted to Washington, D.C. Trippy.
