Unpacking the Pandora's box of projections

Discover Eduard Imhof, a Swiss cartographer with an impressionistic sense of working with light and hue to create texture and shadow.

Use the pulse map to visualise day-over-day trends and answer important questions such as "How are we doing today relative to yesterday?" and "What can we expect tomorrow?"

Download the orange peel project in ArcGIS Pro to see how different map projections stretch, shrink or squish the earth. 

Turn vector maps into inky goodness with John Nelson's stippled pen and ink style. Apply the effect to dynamic data served from the Living Atlas.

Dip a toe into the sea of cartographic wonder that is Erwin Raisz's hand-drawn and impossibly intricate landform maps.

Suitable for highlighting oceanic data, the Spilhaus projection displays the world's oceans as a single body of water.

Visualise the differences between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections through physical maps, silhouettes and Tissot Indicatrix.

Learn how the old world ocean map went viral and became supported in ArcGIS.

Listen to more episodes in the GIS Directions podcast series. Dive into the topics and trends that are shaping the GIS world.

Grow your knowledge and build your ArcGIS skills with industry-recognised training options.