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-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1365arrow-down112
arrow-up1353arrow-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-square68linkfedilink
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·13 hours 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-up4arrow-down1·6 hours 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