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Luís de Sousa<a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@infobeautiful</a> Not only is this map utterly incorrect, so are all those simplistic solutions like "TrueSize".If you wish to compare areas you need an equal-area <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StopMercator</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksMercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes] -- <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a> <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases] -- [note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#size</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JustSayNoToGallPeters</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#equalarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mercator</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nautical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spheroid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globe</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#direction</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#equalearth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rhomb</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rhomblines</a>

Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P NatenomI wondered what <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> uses and zoomed out as far as possible. It looked like a <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> to me.It kinda was confirmed to me when I scrolled that zoomed out map up and down and the scale shown in the very bottom of the browser window changed from 10000km and being about as wide as the USA or Africa when the map is about centered vertically in the browser window to 1m (with a scale width going 4 times around the globe) at the bottom (shown) and upper ends.

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