As the UN adopts an equal world map, meet the three geographers who disputed how the Earth was charted 2000 years ago
https://theconversation.com/as-the-un-adopts-an-equal-world-map-meet-the-three-geographers-who-disputed-how-the-earth-was-charted-2000-years-ago-293297
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I so loved The West Wing:
Africa reclaims it’s big spoon status. South America in disarray.
Equal earth distorts in a less-useful way for political reasons.
Less useful for programmers? Sailors? Nothing stopping them from using Mercator even still, hah.
“Where to tack, captain?”
Arrr, me be callin the UN
I maintain the opinion that this is a worse projection than what we had. Yes, the proportions are more accurate but the readability of the map got worse. The countries that already were perfectly visible front and centre are now even more visible whereas most of Europe is now just one incoherent blob.
Back in my school days our text books used the Winkel Tripel projection and even that was much better.
You’re gonna love this:
I don’t think Europe is that bad in this projection, but Scandinavia is getting rather flattened.
Obviously all these projections suck, but I also agree Winkel Tripel is nicer, even if it looks goofier at a distance.
https://map-projections.net/compare.php?p1=winkel-tripel&p2=equalearth&sps=1
most of Europe is now just one incoherent blob.
Not inaccurate. Trollololol.
Europe is a relatively small region, an appendix to Asia if you will. When needing more acuity, use a map of Europe.
