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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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[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is not really an answer.

What is the best general world map to teach kids about the world, that we can put in a book or as a poster on the wall, without having to switch to different maps for each lessen, confusing everyone?

If it is not Mercator, then which one is?

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

For teaching kids Equal Earth is a reasonable choice. Scale and relative global position are conveyed better.

A side effect of Mercator massively distorting size near the poles, neither Europe nor Canada don't feel as North as they actually are.

Kids don't have much of a reason to care about specific angles.