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That reminds me of this contemporary Chinese world map: https://priorprobability.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/img_5360.jpg https://priorprobability.files.wordpre
by retrac 3y ago
That reminds me of this contemporary Chinese world map: https://priorprobability.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/img_5360.jpg https://priorprobability.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/img_536...
It's meant for shipping lanes, mostly. So it puts China in the centre. The shortest route to European and American markets are approximately straight lines. And the Panama canal is at the edge of the world.
- yorwba 3y agoIf you look closely, it's actually putting the Maldives in the center. And the description in the bottom right doesn't mention shipping lanes at all (which anyways would go overland if you were to simply draw straight lines on this map) but instead mentions that a latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinally_equal-differential_polyconic_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinally_equal-differenti... is used to prevent the distortion near the poles that appears in commonly-used maps.
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- geraldwhen 3y agoI saw a Japanese map recently and it took me a full minute to understand what I was looking at. Japan was at the center, and North America was on the right.