What's the best map for my classroom?

[loogie]

I think my favourite projection to use to show the differences in projections (and how odd they can make the world look) is the Hammer retroazimuthal projection, which was created to display a straight line from anywhere in the world to mecca.

i attachd a quick screenshot... i found it on this site http://www.galleryofmapprojections.com/Azimuthal.html which has a whole bunch of projections in pdf format, which you can probably print out easily (i dunno at what size however) to show these differences...

[su_liam]

Here is a great site for map projections. It's especially good if you are looking to implement one in software, because it shows the functions used to project the map as well as the inverse.

Whatever Stephen Wolfram's personality defects, he knows his math. Or someone working for him does...