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💧🌏 Greg CocksExample Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland -- <a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/</a> <-- shared media article -- [this post is NOT about geopolitics, rather the excellent use of multiple maps to illustrate the story / situation… so no text from the article itself...] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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Luís de Sousa<a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infobeautiful</a> Not only is this map utterly incorrect, so are all those simplistic solutions like "TrueSize".If you wish to compare areas you need an equal-area <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopMercator</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksMercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes] -- <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a> <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases] -- [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] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#size</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustSayNoToGallPeters</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nautical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spheroid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globe</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#direction</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalearth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomb</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomblines</a>

oscheneValck Projected onto the Intersection of Six CylindersA gentle reminder that a map is not intended to show you the relative size of nation states. That's why we have globes. If you have an inflated sense of Greenland, well, that's pretty much on you.From Gerard Valck's Nouus planiglobii terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus, 1695. <a href="https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f9162" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f9162</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kirigami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kirigami</a>

Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P NatenomI wondered what <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> uses and zoomed out as far as possible. It looked like a <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> to me.It kinda was confirmed to me when I scrolled that zoomed out map up and down and the scale shown in the very bottom of the browser window changed from 10000km and being about as wide as the USA or Africa when the map is about centered vertically in the browser window to 1m (with a scale width going 4 times around the globe) at the bottom (shown) and upper ends.

🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸This is pretty crazy; Alaska is only about twice as wide as the Hawaiian islands, though it looks a LOT bigger due to map projection.The True Size Of ... <a href="https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!US-AK*NTM5OTg3OQ.NzkxMDk5)Mw~!US-HI*NTM4NDA3Ng.MTg0NDA4Njg)NA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!US-AK*NTM5OTg3OQ.NzkxMDk5)Mw~!US-HI*NTM4NDA3Ng.MTg0NDA4Njg)NA</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alaska</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hawaii</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapProjection</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Current daylight/nighttime map of the Earth using a <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/CahillConcialdi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CahillConcialdi</a> (aka bat) <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MapProjection</a>.What’s this projection? <a href="https://github.com/seav/cahill-concialdi/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://github.com/seav/cahill-concialdi/</a><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/MappyMondays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MappyMondays</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Current daylight/nighttime map of the Earth using a <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/CahillConcialdi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CahillConcialdi</a> (aka bat) <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MapProjection</a>.<a href="https://github.com/seav/cahill-concialdi/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://github.com/seav/cahill-concialdi/</a>

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