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

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can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You can get this with a few clicks

Equal Earth is an equal-area (equivalent) projection. Shapes, directions, angles, and distances are distorted and stretched north-south in tropical and mid-latitude areas. Nearer the poles, features are compressed in the north-south direction. Distortion values are symmetric across the equator and the central meridian.

and there’s a paper but the link requires access

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