Comment on The world on Van der Grinten projection (2011)
CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 months ago
Well, I mean, of course you would want to avoid being either conformal or equal-area. As an experienced cartographer, I am both intimately aware of the technical meaning of both those terms, and their drawbacks in map composition.
Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Could you please explain it to a pleb like me senpai?
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A conformal projection makes straight lines appear on the map with the same relative direction they appear on the surface.
An equal-area projection makes the areas of parts of the map proportional to the area of the surface they represent.
That map on the post is neither. The most useful maps are normally neither.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Doesn’t “useful” depend a lot on application and that’s why we have more than one map type?
CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 months ago
No because I was lying and have no idea what any of that means lol