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by carl-j 4026 days ago
Would you mind sharing how you go about making these?

I found the Cahill projection a few years ago and was disappointed that I couldn't seem to find one in print.

The one I found that seem to resemble it is the Waterman projection which is also available in printed versions.

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An award-winning 5' Cahill-Keyes wall map, compiled by Duncan Webb, published in Feb. 2014, can be ordered here: http://www.genekeyes.com/world_map_poster.html
> Would you mind sharing how you go about making these?

Spend a month or two reading the appropriate books about cartography, complex analysis, and approximation theory, and then write some Matlab code. :-)