Its a distorted representation of what the Earth looks like, and regardless of the way the sphere of our Earth is displayed on a 2D plane, it will always be distorted.
I don’t see any tangible benefit from changing what has already worked and is globally accepted for many decades. It seems kinda nitpicky, or like these people are clout chasing or something.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Worked for whom? The countries that are over-represented in the current map?
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Uhh… everybody.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
If it was working for everyone, there would never be a widespread movement that got Mercator largely phased out of education.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 hours ago
It was working for everyone in navigation, where angles mattered. Which is why it became the most used map.
It was phased out in favour of maps showing area more correctly, because navigation w. maps became less important, not because “it didn’t work”.