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-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThe projection should have been changed, but it should be a a compromise projection like Robinson or Winkel Tripel that doesn’t perfectly preserve area, distance, shape, or direction, but also doesn’t horribly distort any of them.
The projection should have been changed, but it should be a a compromise projection like Robinson or Winkel Tripel that doesn’t perfectly preserve area, distance, shape, or direction, but also doesn’t horribly distort any of them.