time2lose@lemmy.worldBanned to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 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-up1641arrow-down130
arrow-up1611arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectiontime2lose@lemmy.worldBanned to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square213linkfedilink
minus-squareparaplu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoFor teaching kids Equal Earth is a reasonable choice. Scale and relative global position are conveyed better. A side effect of Mercator massively distorting size near the poles, neither Europe nor Canada don’t feel as North as they actually are. Kids don’t have much of a reason to care about specific angles.
For teaching kids Equal Earth is a reasonable choice. Scale and relative global position are conveyed better.
A side effect of Mercator massively distorting size near the poles, neither Europe nor Canada don’t feel as North as they actually are.
Kids don’t have much of a reason to care about specific angles.