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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (lemmy.world)

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lol, good luck "accurately" mapping our irregular oblate spheroid on to a globe (i.e. a regular sphere). You're correct that map projections inherently make concessions and introduce inaccuracies. But a globe would just require a different kind of projection in this context. And that projection hides more subtle inaccuracies. Globes are not an answer to the problem of map projection distortion.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I cannot disagree with that last sentence…

Edit: for context the sentence used to start with “Gloves aren’t…” but there’s been a ninja edit from OP above.