time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 20 days agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1640arrow-down129cross-posted to: southafrica@piefed.social
arrow-up1611arrow-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 · 20 days agomessage-square214linkfedilinkcross-posted to: southafrica@piefed.social
minus-squareAlteredEgo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·19 days agoWhat is new is that we now for sure know that it impacts perception of how important a country is. So it is quite new, and Mercator is very much “incorrect” for the purposes of a representative map of earth.
What is new is that we now for sure know that it impacts perception of how important a country is. So it is quite new, and Mercator is very much “incorrect” for the purposes of a representative map of earth.