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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (thelemmy.club)
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But you completely discard the very concept of direction. And look at poor New Zealand.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I don't think so, I think it accurately portrays what North is on our globe. Magnetic North is in the Arctic. By displaying the Earth this way, we're seeing a map that's oriented to the North.

    The issue with New Zealand goes away with tessellation. This is from Wikipedia, I think that we should be tessellating around the the first part of the map instead but it gets the point across

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