Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition

Last year, I created a new map projection, the Asymmetric Monstrosity, designed to make somewhat of an artistic and educational statement about projections in general. I also made a physical world map to demonstrate it. Click to go to the original announcement, which has a free download. My thanks to the dozen or so of you who’ve chosen to put a copy of this in your home. Of course, there is a huge difference between a projection and an individual map that uses that projection (a distinction that many who have written about the UN’s adoption of the Equal Earth projection seem to have missed), and I am happy for others to make use of my strange creation (unlike Buckminster Fuller and his dymaxion map). My original post announcing the projection included a breakdown of how it can be created from more common ones. However, I know that not everyone out there has easy access to GIS software or knows how to use it. So, it occured to me this week that maybe someone would benefit from some…