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The UN backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size. The US was the only country to vote against it. (www.npr.org)
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[–] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I literally don't care what we land on as long as we kill Mercator.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago

    There's this "vertical map" sometimes used in China that I'm fascinated by, almost always in the left configuration but there exists a version that doesn't cut off the Americas. It's named the Hao projection after its inventor Hao Xiaoguang.

    More commonly used in China is this, whose official name is checks notes "Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection", what a mouthful...

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I've always been a fan of the squiggly looking ones idk why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggs_eumorphic_projection

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago* (4 children)

    Goode Homolosine is a classic, but wow I really like how smooth the Boggs is.

    My favourite is still the Waterman Butterfly, just fantastic!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    Honestly butterfly-style maps should be the default, you can tell shape, size, position, cardinal direction all relatively well, there's no major distortions, and Pacific-centered, Atlantic-centered, and north-down versions all work fine.

    Idk why I never see it in these discussions, but somehow the "wrong aspect ratio" Gall-peters map always pops up.

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