No because I was lying and have no idea what any of that means lol
Comment on The world on Van der Grinten projection (2011)
Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 14 hours agoCould you please explain it to a pleb like me senpai?
CombatWombat@feddit.online 14 hours ago
marcos@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 13 hours ago
Doesn’t “useful” depend a lot on application and that’s why we have more than one map type?