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

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roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s almost two entire sections. With just a little of North America, Asia, and Antarctica. No other body is water or land mass comes anywhere near that.

And if you still don’t think that’s vast enough, maybe a lifetime of bad projections have given you a distorted view of the Pacific’s size. Mercator and Mercator like projections definitely make the Pacific look much too large near the poles.

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