Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I mean the problem with any projection of earth onto a 2d simplified shape surface is that it will be inherently distorted. The Mercator projection is scaled properly towards the equator but has to scale upwards more and more toward the poles to be able to fit the given area.

Even their own map, which for some reason isn’t shown in either the video or on the main page, isn’t accurate either. It’s better but is also warped in its own way, it would be nice if they had a little blurb that says something to that effect.

Here’s the actual map projection they are pushing for; equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html

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