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Title text: Positive vibes/longitudes only


Transcript[There is a map of the world with positive longitudes and negative longitudes overlapping. Caption above the map:]

Bad Map Projection #152:
Longitude=ABS(Longitude)
Whoops, made all longitudes positive

[The land masses are represented in white, and the oceans in light grey. Some capital cities, countries and geographical features are labeled.]

[Near Siberia, among the other city names, is indicated:]

Franklin's very lost expedition


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That took me a couple minutes to actually grasp what is where. I like the idea of NYC being in the Himalayas, and I'd love to see that.