Author Topic: Thorn Nomad MK2 8 speed Shimano Alfine  (Read 2479 times)


Danneaux

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Re: Thorn Nomad MK2 8 speed Shimano Alfine
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 10:22:43 PM »
...More about the details of the bike itself here: http://www.globecycleracer.com/page5.html

Attn: IanShearin! This fellow did all his travels with an Alfine 8! You may not need to change to a Rohloff...!

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Dan.
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Re: Thorn Nomad MK2 8 speed Shimano Alfine
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2013, 07:02:23 AM »
Interesting to see the map of the world is emphasising the southern hemisphere as opposed to the norm of emphasising the northern.

Does my ride look bigger in this?

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Re: Thorn Nomad MK2 8 speed Shimano Alfine
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2013, 07:32:27 AM »
Andy,

It is not a standard Mercator projection. It looks to me more like a Hobo-Dyer Equal-Area projection.

There are a number of non-standard projections that each claim to provide a more accurate notion of actual land mass and area, but the geo-political implications are vast, and account in part for their minimal popular adoption. Each projection has a strength and weakness.

During the Cold War, a number of alternative projections made the former Soviet Union appear to have a much greater land mass than shown in traditional Mercator projections, and were squelched in the US during this time for political reasons.

For a fairly comprehensive presentation of alternative map projections, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cartographic_projections

I can spend hours looking at these things...and have! My walls display a few of them.

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Dan. (...who has always been a map-gazer)
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