Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

"Farewell Web Mercator". Slides of my talks at #SOTMEU2024 are available online: https://pka.github.io/farewell-web-mercator/
#OSM #SOTMEU #StateoftheMapEurope #EqualEarth #Projection

A #map in the #wild. Turned around this evening in the #pub #urinal (not before I’d finished!) to see this peeling #wall paint. Can you see a #Mercator northern hemisphere #global projection here? It struck me immediately!

FYI I hate Mercator projections. If I’m forced to put #north at the top of my maps, then I choose #EqualEarth projections. I disavow Mercator’s #imperialist #global view of the world. As a #medieval (ist) #East is always top of any map I draw anyway! #Orientate your #Maps.

Nostalgia – Cartography & Projections On Network TV’s ‘West Wing’
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https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083
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Cool to see map geekiness pop up on network TV drama a few years back
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• I am NOT a fan of the the Galls Peters - thinking that the Equal Earth Projection (https://equal-earth.com/) is vastly superior technically and ‘aesthetically pleasing’
• The 1569 Mercator projection was NOT designed as a ‘tool of cultural oppression’, that is a persistent myth - but rather was "... the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes...”
• As a Trekkie, I also love that the actor John Billingsley - who plays Dr Flox - is the ‘lead scientist’…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #projection #mapprojections #gischat #StarTrek #WestWing #networkTV #TV #EqualEarth #mapping #representation #mapgeeks #mapgeekiness #mercator #rhumblines #navigation #usecase #marine #shape #area #distance

The Equal Earth Map Projection
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949 <-- shared (2018) paper
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared web page, including downloadable high resolution map products
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[an older paper, but still a wonderful projection IMHO, supported in many GIS softwares and apps now, and rightly so]
“The Equal Earth map projection is a new equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, retains the relative size of areas. The projection equations are simple to implement and fast to evaluate. Continental outlines are shown in a visually pleasing and balanced way…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #projection #projections #mapprojections #mapprojection #global #worldmapprojection #PseudocylindricalProjection #RobinsonProjection #GallPetersProjection #cartography