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2 unusual facts about Goode homolosine projection


22d Space Operations Squadron

Sable, an opinicus passant Argent between in chief a mullet of the like and in base, a Mercator projection actually represented as Goode homolosine of the globe Azure gridlined of the second, land masses of the first, and charged on the "United States" with a mullet Or; all within a diminished bordure of the like.

Goode homolosine projection

The projection was developed in 1923 by John Paul Goode to provide an alternative to the Mercator projection for portraying global areal relationships.



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