Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection
Worked for whom? The countries that are over-represented in the current map?
Uhh… everybody.
If it was working for everyone, there would never be a widespread movement that got Mercator largely phased out of education.
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”.
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Uhh… everybody.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 21 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 11 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”.