Randall Munroe: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas xkcd.com/2951

Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas xkcd.com/2951

Title text: "Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/2951#Transcript

Not only are we not "not in Kansas anymore" but we have never left.

We're all trapped by the great kansas ice wall.

Shouldn’t there be all kinds of islands in that lake? Some of which will contain lakes? Some of which will contain islands?

The map presented is only a US map. You can generate a Kansas-exterior map of the world using ns6t.net/azimuth/azim..., using the coordinates "-39, 81.5" (the antipodes of Kansas). It's fairly readable, if you don't care about the Americas.

NS6T's Azimuthal Mapns6t.net

*if you don't care about North America. South America is pretty readable too

This just confirms my suspicion that we are all surrounded by kansas.

Thanks, I hate it!

How did you even make this??? Did you free-hand it?

He seems to spend a lot of time noodling with Python, JavaScript, and Wolfram Alpha. This is probably an accurate inverted projection of some sort.

"It all depends on how you look at it." The title of my new book on comparative projections of Kansas.

Rejected title: "You're just projecting."

this is a lot at 20:35

blursed kansas

Wait, Canada is that itty bitty island?

I think everything but the US sunk into the sea.

No Canada is labeled but not depicted. Like at the top of a typical map of the continental US

Woooooooow

Not just a map, but a *conformal* map!

incredible

Ah this is the famous Inverted Egocentric Projektion IEP.

Stereographic world map tangent to 38.5° S, 82° E gives you INFINITE KANSAS!

Intolerance

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I applaud your efforts at screwing with people's heads :)

That's certainly the way we view the world here in Kansas.

Love it

Reminds me a little of the quirks of planet Iowa.

LOL awesome! But also, Colorado should be both contiguous and bigger. Coz Kansans gotta get abortions, cannabis, and two-step victims somewhere, right?!

All we are is dust in the wind.

"Escape from New York" should get an "Escape from Kansas" remake.

#45? Was thst intentional? Because he was pretty bad at maps. 🤔

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Impeccable.

this is amazing

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