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Hi! Welcome to a new week here in our blog. We are Maria Jose and Diego, playing the roles of translators together this week. After working in the topic of this week, we are going to define the 5 concepts we consider more important. MERCATOR’S MODEL OF PROJECTION : This projection is probably the most famous of all projections, and it takes the name of its creator, who created it in 1569. It is a cylindrical projection that has no distortions in the area of the equator. One of the characteristics of this projection is that the representation of a line with a constant direction is drawn completely straight. In this way, to navigate from one place to another, you just have to connect the departure and destination points with a straight line, which allows you to keep the course constant throughout the whole trip. This Projection is usually used to represent the world maps, but the distortions it creates in the Polar Regions are quite big, giving the false impression that Greenland an...

WEEK 5: TREASURE HUNT AND CARTOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS Hi everyone! I am Roberto Jara and this week my role is the analyst. Before making a reflection about if media are neutral of not I would like to make a brief summary about how our work has been done this week. First of all, I think that the best part of the activity was the freedom to choose the type of presentation we wanted to do because you can do the task the way you consider best. I have to admit that one of the stars of the week , performed really well, in spite of the fact that it was the first for her talking in front of a big audience. The worst part was that we did not know very well what we had to do till Linda explained us in the classroom. It seemed to be very very hard, but finally, was really funny. Being honest, the best part of the week is on Monday morning when we know what is the role we have to develop and presenting ideas before working. Later, we start doing things. If you asked me what...