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

gloktawasright@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Search the comments before promoting this one. Glad I’m not alone.

  I especially like how it centers over the Pacific, the largest geographical feature.

  Other maps make the Pacific look similar in size to the Atlantic when in reality the Pacific ocean is three times the size of the Eurasia landmass.

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• PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wow. thats cool

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