time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 1 day agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down113
arrow-up1408arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square89linkfedilink
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down7·22 hours agoIs that the answer to my question?
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·22 hours 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-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·22 hours agoAnd the present doesn’t affect the past.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours 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.