time2lose@lemmy.worldBanned to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square99linkfedilinkarrow-up1456arrow-down116
arrow-up1440arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.worldBanned to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square99linkfedilink
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months 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-squareOldChicoAle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-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