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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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[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For political uses new projection is better. UN body are not going to use that to navigate.

[–] Marbling@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

The only reason to have a default map is political.

People actually using maps and GIS pick whatever projection suits their needs - which is not Mercantor most of the time to begin with. I work with GIS a lot and never use it, unless forced by some API. But even then, reprojecting is trivial.