time2loseBanned to interestingasfuck · 1 month agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionimagemessage-square213linkfedilinkarrow-up1644arrow-down129cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1615arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectiontime2loseBanned to interestingasfuck · 1 month agomessage-square213linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddamlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month agoum, okay but this specific distortion is unhelpful to me. it just shows the extent of the distortion, not what the new map would be. the new map is the most pertinent piece of info.
minus-squareOldChicoAlelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection
um, okay but this specific distortion is unhelpful to me. it just shows the extent of the distortion, not what the new map would be. the new map is the most pertinent piece of info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection