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Do you think it may be your bias based on your entire lifetime of looking at Mercator projections? The purpose of this project is to make it an accurate repres
by win_ini 10y ago
Do you think it may be your bias based on your entire lifetime of looking at Mercator projections? The purpose of this project is to make it an accurate representation. The observations you make are precisely why this made was made.
- colordrops 10y agoThis was made to keep areas proportional to reality but the shapes are clearly distorted.
- Grue3 10y agoI specifically chose countries that are close to equator, because they are not distorted on Mercator very much.
- pfortuny 10y agoThe question is: why "areas" are more accurate than distances/angles in a map? So: this map has very good properties in some sense, very bad in others.
- JackFr 10y agoThat's simply it. Mercator won mindshare because it was most useful for people who needed maps to do their jobs. If I'm setting a course for some destination I don't really care what the land area of Greenland is, I want to know the correct heading. This map may solve some imaginary problem of public perception, but at the cost of losing valuable information easily gleaned from other maps,like northern and southern hemisphere, which places share the same latitude, which places share the same longitude. These are physical distinctions which matter.