Fuck that. Let's go for the euler spiral.

In color

We could also have made Mercator maps of varying position, but that might not center Europe.

Yes, it is an awful website with an awful promotion video. Sizing the countries down but not connecting them and not showing you the world map as it would look like in total is absolutely not furthering the cause. I'm so mad I'm not sure I even want to sign the petition to be honest. Granted, my school atlas did not have the mercator projection.

Damn Russia is still that big? I thought the distortion played a large part in its size on the original map.

Greenland's not that big is it?

I didn't think I'd ever have a favourite map but here we are.

That projection shows how vast the Pacific is

Came here to make sure that xkcd got posted. Well done.

And they're very big. Have you looked at a map lately? Do you expect tiny little Africa to stand up to that?

It’s time the U.S. deals with big Greenland once and for Oil.

You've unlocked a weird memory. The Windows CD version of Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego did exactly that. It had that map screen where you'd pick where to chase the bad guy, and they used different map projections. I can find screenshots of the game showcasing a Mercator, Robinson and Goode Homolosine projections. And it's not different editions of the game, it would change between missions.

I don't get it,
from my memory of geography class in 5th to 8th grade, in elementary, we extensively learned about all kinds of maps, and projections, so teaching kids 3-4 is huge downgrade.

They are only using the cause to promote their brand social responsibility probably. In any case, the issue with the distorted view of the map that ideologically and politically benefited one side has been known for decades, and most of the countries that were colonies now use the correct one.

If it's already distorted, switching to a different distortion that's area-preserving can still be an improvement.

I was wondering the same thing.

You can’t see the reduced size versions inside the originals? They’re outlined in a different color.

I don’t think there’s any standard that requires it anywhere. So I’m not sure exactly what this is about.

Don't give the right any ideas. They'll be on about "geometric purity" or other such nonsense. Or anything but Mercator will just be "woke."

yeah, most of the world already moved on from it, but its still being used in many texts and countries.

Each region on a dymaxion map is absolutely fine though, it's just when you put it all together it becomes god awful.

A butterfly map is a better compromise if you need a world map.

This looks like when you see a weird, unflattering picture of a celebrity. Earth just woke up and hasn't put its makeup on and you put it on blast like this

The way the world's going, the next accepted projection will be depicted on the backs of four elephants atop a turtle.

Its the same take that's applied to any party seen as a "status quo". Your boss, the CEO, police, the state, movies, everything is "projected" to show something that it isn't to subtly manipulate the basis of your decisions.

Africans: You know, 14th century mercator maps are horribly disproportionate over 1/2 the map and are the maps of reference for most online apps, software and textbooks. There are better projections that balance location for actual land mass, we should probably use those.

lemmy: garbage take.

99% of people dont know that there other projections. I dare you to ask people which map projection is their favorite.

Ideally yes we should stick to standard and make sure everyone knows thay there are many variants and none of them perfectly represent the sphere were on but thats not happening.

Which line of work is that? You just gonna leave us hanging?

what line of work?

wow. thats cool

Search the comments before promoting this one. Glad I'm not alone.

I especially like how it centers over the Pacific, the largest geographical feature.

Other maps make the Pacific look similar in size to the Atlantic when in reality the Pacific ocean is three times the size of the Eurasia landmass.