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We need a new world map that accurately portrays countries by size. The downstream effects would go crazy.
by peakskill 1y ago
We need a new world map that accurately portrays countries by size. The downstream effects would go crazy.
- HideousKojima 1y agoThere's already several, Gall Peters being the most (in)famous. Other than accurately showing size, such maps are pretty useless. Mercator is actually useful for navigation because it maintains angles, all "size accurate" projections have to sacrifice that.
- Affric 1y agoI mostly agree but it’s comical you have put “size accurate” in quotes but have said Mercator “maintains angles” without any qualification. It preserved rhumb lines.
- geor9e 1y agoYou think that doesn't exist? You think the cartographers and mathematicians in Mercater's age were just sitting on their hands?
- thraxil 1y agoLike a globe?
- jasode 1y ago>a new world map that accurately portrays countries by size. Search for "equal-area" in the list of map projections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections You can see that any translation from 3D sphere to 2D plane will always create a tradeoff of geometry somewhere. E.g. Distorted shapes and lines, torn oceans, etc.
- os2warpman 1y ago> The downstream effects would go crazy. I used to say "No human being who has ever lived has made a consequential decision because 'Greenland big brah' and people just need to get over it." But given the current administration, I...
- gus_massa 1y ago> The downstream effects would go crazy. Wars are won with tanks^W drones, not by measuring the area in a map. Laypeople may be confused, but when a government decides to invade another country or add some economical penalty, they know the real data like real-world-surface, GDP, number of weapons, ...
- perilunar 1y agoWhy? There's other projections that do that already. And now we do most stuff on screens we can just use 3D models.