time2lose to interestingasfuck · 5 days agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionimagemessage-square210linkfedilinkarrow-up1638arrow-down128cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1610arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectiontime2lose to interestingasfuck · 5 days agomessage-square210linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down5·5 days agoIf you’re asking me to tell you the best way to navigate 500 years ago, I can’t help you because I’m not a historian. The point is that really has absolutely no bearing on how we should use maps today in the present.
minus-squareViceversalinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·5 days agoAnd the present doesn’t affect the past.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddamlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 days agofrom the perspective of an art conservationist i’m not entirely sure i agree.
Is that the answer to my question?
If you’re asking me to tell you the best way to navigate 500 years ago, I can’t help you because I’m not a historian. The point is that really has absolutely no bearing on how we should use maps today in the present.
And the present doesn’t affect the past.
from the perspective of an art conservationist i’m not entirely sure i agree.