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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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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All world maps are inaccurate except a globe. Equal Earth still shows distortions when you move closer to the poles. Instead of stretching along the latitude it now compresses along the longitude

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about Dymaxion

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So where's Antarctica on this map?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

Penguins aren't real, you fool!

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Dymaxian is a pretty good one for showing sizes, useless for navigation though