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I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great. Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/w
by xnx 1mo ago
I'm neutral on the map. If it makes somebody happy, great.
Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram
- someothherguyy 1mo ago> Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map why?
- bell-cot 1mo agoWatch the map animation at the top of the NPR article. Notice how most of 'em don't even bother to show the deep interior of Antarctica. If you aren't a geologist or similar - how much of the importance of a place is due to the people living there?
- xnx 1mo agoThe UN represents the interests of people, not land.
- someothherguyy 1mo agoso? people still need to use and visualize a map that isn't some strange abstraction. how useful is a population map when attempting to locate a small country to understand geography?