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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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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Isn't this incorrect though? As far as I am aware it is possible to represent true size (equal-area) or true shape (conformal), but not both at the same time

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, isn't that what I said?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I read it as neither one is possible, but maybe it's on me.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Well, I meant is when projecting something in 2D, you're making a sacrifice somewhere.