time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 24 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-up1635arrow-down128
arrow-up1607arrow-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 · 24 days agomessage-square214linkfedilink
minus-squareAlteredEgo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·23 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.