hi, i'm trying to map new york city and wondering if it's possible to pick a projection that will have an effect that brings the map a bit closer to the shapes seen in the nyc mta subway map ( http://i.stack.imgur.com/YT50F.jpg).
the bonne and azimuthal projections on this page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections) really appear to inflate africa the same way that i would like to inflate either manhattan or perhaps manhattan + brooklyn. i've posted reproducible code and some example images here-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26493524/what-projections-in-r-will-fatten-a-city-map i understand what i'm trying to do could be accomplished as a cartogram, but i'm curious if - since i don't really care about population- or count-based weighting - a smart projection selection might save me a lot of time. thank you!! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
