Dr. Moose@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoYSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projectioncorrectthemap.orgexternal-linkmessage-square180fedilinkarrow-up1551arrow-down155cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1496arrow-down1external-linkYSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projectioncorrectthemap.orgDr. Moose@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square180fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down5·edit-21 month agoit’s a pretty common talking point. and he people most likely to look at maps nowadays are indeed children.
minus-squareRightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 month ago it’s a pretty common talking point. Not common enough, apparently. I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agolet me rephase; it’s a pretty common talking point when discussing map projections. has been since the 50s.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 month agoThis is a subconscious thing, not an explicit belief.
it’s a pretty common talking point. and he people most likely to look at maps nowadays are indeed children.
Not common enough, apparently.
I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.
let me rephase; it’s a pretty common talking point when discussing map projections. has been since the 50s.
This is a subconscious thing, not an explicit belief.