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https://xkcd.com/977/ https://xkcd.com/977/ has better ones.
by gpvos 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/977/ https://xkcd.com/977/ has better ones.
- fraqed 10y agoI was surprised some of these weren't included in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
- Robotbeat 10y agoYeah. Frakking "Peters" (sic) projection. It's Gall-Peters, and it's still terrible. By the way, most online maps (such as Google Maps) use a variant of Mercator, because otherwise shapes and north-south vs east-west distances (when you're zoomed in) are highly distorted. I think Mercator and Gall-Peters type projections are both just about equally as bad for global views. Africa and other equatorial areas are heavily distorted whereas mid-latitude areas are fairly accurate, so it's just as US/Eurocentric as Mercator. The projections which compromise shape distortion and size distortion are pretty good, like Winkel-Tripel. I think I prefer the projections that preserve both shape and size while ripping the map along oceans. Like Dymaxion.