I?ve been playing with the timezone map feature that has just been integrated 
into the slim_source gate and I?ve noticed that the map graphic has some 
geographic inaccuracies.
It seems that everything is shifted too far south relative to the points drawn 
on the map.
Examples:

- Oslo is out place( in the sea), as is Longyearbyen (should be on the southern 
tip of the
   island north of Norway.
- singapore which is 1degree north of the equator should be at the very 
southern tip of malaysia. The dot appears well inside Malaysia.

- The dot representing Tasmania is inland inside the Australian mainland.

- Mawson, Casey, Davis, Dumont Stations etc. in the antartic should be dotted 
along the shore line of the Antartic landmass. Instead they are sitting out in 
the ocean.

You can see where these points should be if you compare with the timezone 
applet from
the gnome panel: Access it?s right click menu and select ?Adjust Date and Time? 
then hit the ?Select Time Zone...? button.

It would seem that there are horizontal chunks of both the north and south 
polar regions missing, especially the south pole
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