Damn Russia is still that big? I thought the distortion played a large part in its size on the original map.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Since this article gave you everything except the one thing you want to see, here’s what the Equal Earth projection looks like
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
you need to tag nudity as NSFW
BangCrash@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Greenland’s not that big is it?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 months 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…
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I do.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oh God I didn’t even notice that, you’re absolutely right. Or, dare I say, you are correct.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 months 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.