File talk:Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection SW.jpg

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Why not go all the way?[edit]

A nice map, but why not go all the way to the poles? The nice thing about a Lambert projection is that the map can go all the way to the poles. Granted, it's increasingly distorted, but that's part of what the article is pointing out. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 21:48, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]