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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 (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 19 hours ago* (1 child)

For political uses new projection is better. UN body are not going to use that to navigate.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    The only reason to have a default map is political.

    People actually using maps and GIS pick whatever projection suits their needs - which is not Mercantor most of the time to begin with. I work with GIS a lot and never use it, unless forced by some API. But even then, reprojecting is trivial.

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