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

• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh boy! Are you serious? Let me be more precise, in case. There aren’t actual projections that are better in all cases than the Mercator projection. There are maps that are better in given cases. ALL maps have trade offs. The one you shared, included. It certainly benefits from the humor of pointing out why this is an issue in the first place.

  xkcd.com/977/

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    in all cases I think the part tripping you up

    We can do better with teaching, news and infographics than a map that is just designed for ship navigation.

    It’s like you’d run over a dozen kids in the trolly problem rather than a geriatric because there’s no perfect solution.

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