Those distances get exaggerated up on the poles though. What about that other one that looks like a bunch of orange slices?
YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection
Submitted 2 months ago by drmoose@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That one has the problem that someone might get hungry and eat the slices.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 months ago
If you're going to break things up, at least use the Waterman Butterfly, which doesn't look disgusting or split Greenland in half.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think the Waterman Butterfly looks like a complete mess.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The slider is very revealing. Hard to believe that were still using Mercator projection when its so incredibly deceiving even if you actually know the real sizes.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 months ago
Mercator is awesome with compass directions. That's why it's the oldest and most popular out of the popular ones today.
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Size only really matters if you’re using the map for overland navigation. (And it’s quite telling that the project is just injecting their own bias instead of actually pushing for accurate representation.)
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The globe in the thumbnail is really bothering me. Does the artist not know how to align objects?
BehavioralClam@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It was probably done for free by some volunteer dude… You can contact them and offer to fix it for free probably
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I might just do that, thanks!
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s also using mercator projection
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh it’s called “equal earth projection”?
Great. That means Trump will double down on the Mercator and it’ll be like the metric bullshit all over again.
locuester@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The downloadable maps from that link are misnaming the “Gulf of America” as “Gulf of Mexico”, so Trump would never ask anyway haha
mrmule@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Love that actually. Any map focusing on relevant parts will be more accurate to those parts.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the best idea I’ve heard since that one weird website I found that said every country should put a sky blue pennant above their flag to remind us we share a planet.
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Ampak Mercator je najboljši sosed. 😢
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
For me, Peter’s projection will always be in second place behind simply using a globe: keeps cardinal directions, easy to find precise coordinates with a ruler, correct continent significance while only using straight lines, simple, and easy to use.
Peeps always says i’m evil because everything is distorded on it but i don’t care about distortion, I just want something rectangular and accurate.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now I need to watch a video on how globes are made
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Interestingly enough, the EU uses the LAEA projection for all its maps!
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Any map depicting UTC0 in the centre and not the international date line in the centre is unequal.
-t Pacific nations.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel like thats why UTC never took off. They should have set 0 in the pacific ocean somewhere and everyone would have been much happier.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Geometry just isn’t PC
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I guess, even globally, size matters.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
It’s not a bad compromise projection honestly. Why not?