http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/e7cdab71-1a23-4320-9bb0-f6eaba94ba4d?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/e7cdab71-1a23-4320-9bb0-f6eaba94ba4d#d42b4a47-c364-47ee-a350-a231663d0b89 Cartographer Solved the 'Greenland Problem' Arthur Robinson, who died Oct. 10 at the age of 89, is best known for the "Robinson projection." It was a solution to the "Greenland problem," an age-old cartographers' bugaboo wherein Greenland looks disproportionately large on maps drawn to the most familiar Mercator projection. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Joel Morrison, one of Robinson's former students. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4171116 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:06:02 GMT http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/e7cdab71-1a23-4320-9bb0-f6eaba94ba4d#d42b4a47-c364-47ee-a350-a231663d0b89 Nozmo 2004-11-16T03:06:02Z