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B.J.S CAHILL'S BUTTERFLY MAP AND BEYOND:
A COMPARATIVE GALLERY OF OCTAHEDRAL WORLD MAPS
Compiled by Gene Keyes
1962 Dahlberg
Date
Author
This scale
<— Source
<— % change
[1962]; 1997
Richard E. Dahlberg
1/200 M
1/417 M
208%

Type

Aspect

Defining
Meridian


Geocells


Original size
Equal-Area
New World; Asia split
22 1/2º W
15 x 15º &
7 1/2 x 15º
57 x 97 mm
Remarks:
At least Cahill is mentioned, but this is a very small, very poor remake of his map. (E.g., the assymetry of the octants, each of which should be identical.)
Source (print)
*[see below]
Source (online: page title & link)
From Richard E. Dahlberg, "Interrupting the World Map", chap. 2 of online publication Matching the Map Projection to the Need, Arthur H. Robinson and John P. Snyder, eds., © 1997, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/
http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/chapter2.html
* [cf. Dahlberg, "Evolution of Interrupted Map Projections" (International Yearbook of Cartography, vol. 2, 1962) p. 36-53]
Source (online: item link)
http://www.gis.psu.edu/projection/images/2-1.gif

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2007-06-05