Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoAfrican Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s sizewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down110
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minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·7 months agoThe simple fact is no map projection will be perfect or do anyone “justice”. You’re flattening out a sphere to a flat rectangle. A lot of compromises have to be made. So go with the one that functions best for navigation.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoWell a rectangle gives you easy direction, true north is always up. But you can map very accurate maps that are not rectangle. They just make navigation a bitch
The simple fact is no map projection will be perfect or do anyone “justice”.
You’re flattening out a sphere to a flat rectangle. A lot of compromises have to be made. So go with the one that functions best for navigation.
Well a rectangle gives you easy direction, true north is always up. But you can map very accurate maps that are not rectangle. They just make navigation a bitch
Globes.