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

cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lodespawn@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I didn’t think I’d ever have a favourite map but here we are.

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• BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That projection shows how vast the Pacific is

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  • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s almost two entire sections. With just a little of North America, Asia, and Antarctica. No other body is water or land mass comes anywhere near that.

    And if you still don’t think that’s vast enough, maybe a lifetime of bad projections have given you a distorted view of the Pacific’s size. Mercator and Mercator like projections definitely make the Pacific look much too large near the poles.

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• craigers@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Came here to make sure that xkcd got posted. Well done.

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