minus-squarehegus@lemmy.worldtointerestingasfuck@lemmy.world•The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 hours agoI mean the good thing about a flat projection is that you can see everything at once. When you’re comparing data points of different countries it is nice to see them on a flat map. Neither the actual size nor the angles really matter in that case. linkfedilink
I mean the good thing about a flat projection is that you can see everything at once. When you’re comparing data points of different countries it is nice to see them on a flat map. Neither the actual size nor the angles really matter in that case.