Comment on The world on Van der Grinten projection (2011)

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Doesn’t “useful” depend a lot on application and that’s why we have more than one map type?

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No because I was lying and have no idea what any of that means lol

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