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Besides size, there's distance. Like it's annoying how UK and France look much further apart than they actually are, and every sea/air route appears to not take
by hn993302 1mo ago
Besides size, there's distance. Like it's annoying how UK and France look much further apart than they actually are, and every sea/air route appears to not take the shortest path. I'd be fine with this change if it weren't about trying to make Africa look more important. They're just fixing a misleading map.
- neuronexmachina 1mo agoIt's worth noting that Equal Earth isn't an equidistant projection. The upper bound on distance distortion is an order of magnitude less than Mercator's though.
- dnautics 1mo agoWhat's the task here?
- hn993302 1mo agoCasually looking at a map to understand relatively how far away things are from each other
- josephcsible 1mo agoEqual area projections don't preserve distance.
- hn993302 1mo agoYeah but it's a lot less bad than how distances look on Mercator