Great to see the United States being humiliated internationally again.
Even Russia’s like: sure don’t care.
yeahh I know africa is a lot bigger than we tought but what suprised me as indonesia its very big compared to old map
I guarantee you that Donny will make a freedom correct map of the world.
Made out of “gold” and sold to the highest bidders!
Magastan voted no.
I’m sure that Google will quickly change their map projections from Pseudo-Mercator to Equal Earth projection as quickly as they changed the names of the bodies of water because President orange cheeto said so… right?.. Riiiight?
Web Mercator is a special kind of abomination, even down to the way the map is cropped to be exactly square. But it is probably the most suitable for navigation, as Mercator itself was designed specifically for it.
Buildings, streets and map features would be more distorted under Equal Earth projection than they already are with Web Mercator. Web Mercator also has the benefit that the cardinal directions are always straight respective to the XY grid, even though the Y direction is non linear.
There is no perfect way of flattening a 3D spheroid into a 2D map, sadly.
But at the scale of streets and building surely the type of map projections is such a mute point the earth might as well be flat.
I knew there was something amiss 😄
Well, your initial comment made you quite the hute.
It would be funny if they built their entire system on one projection.
The United States cast the sole vote against, dismissing the initiative as part of a “radical ideological project.”
“radical” lost all meaning in the US
It has. I am just hoping that once cheeto man is out of office that life in the US can progress back to something more recognizable again.
I saw the US was against it an thought it had to be smth like this. Only americans can look at a problem like “you can’t project a 3D sphere onto a 2D plane” and think “waow this is a little too political for me” (I know I’m oversimplifying but u get the gist)
In other words, the reasons and explanations were too difficult for the American envoy to grasp.
Even Israel voted differently to the US, that’s way funnier than it should be
Did the US vote no, because they are smaller on new maps?
Their stated reason boils down to “New map is woke”.
I hate this timeline.
Greenland is also much smaller in the new map. So in essence they shrunk his ambition down to the size of his little dingleberry and there was nothing he could do but whine.
Or because China looks bigger?
As I heard it, Africa is smaller on map than it should be. “It would be woke to fix that”
The fuck? Why wouldn’t the US want the actual sizes. Wouldn’t having geographically correct maps help the planet and the people, oh wait… The US government hates that kind of shit
Because Mercator projection makes the USA look bigger.
Because we worship ignorance here.
Maybe the US has a broken voting button, they would want to click “yes”, but it ends up as “no” every time.
/s
They probably tried to mail in their vote, but it got stuck at USPS because of a botched bar code.
They, like clockwork, vote against everything. They were one of maybe 3 countries that voted no that water is a human right.
They’re just a contrarian nation.
Why the us voted against? In the new map they look bigger than Canada, it should appease the baby in command.
They don’t want Trump to see how small Greenland actually is. I think he reckons it’s about half the size of the United States because he’s an idiot. Not that this map projection is at all new, or has been a secret or anything, but trump isn’t exactly the investigating type and so he probably hasn’t seen it before, but if the information is shoved in his face he might become upset.
the UN, fighting the important fights /s
Evidently it’s more important to Africans than it is to us.
I understand the intention behind using equal earth projection, but personally I still find the Robinson projection more pleasant to look at. Or, of course, the wonderful Waterman Butterfly projection.
The Robinon projection makes Canada look nearly smaller than Australia.
WOW. I did NOT know Africa was so long, America so small, and India so thin…
Every projection deforms either size ot shape. The projection that this resolution proposes stretches everything vertically (but preserves the sizes). You can see it by looking at intersections between meridians and circles. The spaces between them are supposed to be closer to squares.
India used to be a long thin Island and then it smashed into the rest of the continent to the North and sort of smushed out on the northern’s edge. Eventually it will be completely flattened against the uppercontinent.
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