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

realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, it is an awful website with an awful promotion video. Sizing the countries down but not connecting them and not showing you the world map as it would look like in total is absolutely not furthering the cause. I’m so mad I’m not sure I even want to sign the petition to be honest. Granted, my school atlas did not have the mercator projection.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What really disappoints me about that site is the button that reads “Download the Correct Map”. They destroyed all their credibility with one word.

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    • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh God I didn’t even notice that, you’re absolutely right. Or, dare I say, you are correct.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeh, I mean I can see how using Mercator is subconsciously strengthening colonialist thinking, but to imply that the angles-stable area-distorted map that was much more convenient for naval navigation, was specifically chosen to misrepresent the size of the global south world is borderline paranoid.

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn Russia is still that big? I thought the distortion played a large part in its size on the original map.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pfft. Antarctica is but a few islands in an ice-sheet trench coat. If the ice sheets melted, it would remain uninhabited except for some stalwart rancher folk.

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      • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you need to tag nudity as NSFW

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• BangCrash@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Greenland’s not that big is it?

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes it’s still quite big, but not nearly as big as Australia (as Mercator would suggest). On a globe it is quite obvious, but who has a globe at home in 2025…

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do.

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