This is about time! Thanks #Togo for fronting this issue, fighting #conceptualcolonialism. Also note that #equator is not in the middle of the #oldmap #Mercator... Yey, #EckertVI!!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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September 15, 2026 at 6:14 AM
This is about time! Thanks #Togo for fronting this issue, fighting #conceptualcolonialism. Also note that #equator is not in the middle of the #oldmap #Mercator... Yey, #EckertVI!!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
There exist many equal area projections, such as Mollweide, EckertIV or EckertVI, which are quite good. There is even a recent map projection, named Equal Earth projection (Šavrič, Patterson & Jenny, 2018), which looks very much like the Robinson projection!
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November 3, 2023 at 9:29 AM
There exist many equal area projections, such as Mollweide, EckertIV or EckertVI, which are quite good. There is even a recent map projection, named Equal Earth projection (Šavrič, Patterson & Jenny, 2018), which looks very much like the Robinson projection!
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