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time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 6 days ago

The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection

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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection

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time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 6 days ago
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    5 days ago

    How will we deal with the spaces between the countries that will form? Especially the one under Russia

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      What is shown is just an online tool for showing true continent size. This is the equal earth projection, and you’ve probably already seen it in schools:

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        That’s an equal area projection, and I hate that they named it Equal Earth when there’s many ways to skin that cat. There are many ways to do equal area projections, such as Albers, Lambert, Mollweide, and more.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-area_projection

        They really should use the Winkel Tripel. It’s a fantastic compromise projection that doesn’t perfectly preserve anything (area, shape, size, and direction), but also doesn’t horribly distort anything except for the shape of Antarctica.

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          Oo this one is nice

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          Oh god, I think I’m in love:

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      Duh, bridges.

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      Do nothing. We are happy to see Russia going far away from the Finland.

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        Lol

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      We call the Dutch, they’ll fill it up.

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        Gekoloniseerd!

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