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NickNock :
Are you aware of Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion map?
2026-09-10 20:14:09
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RS37820 :
the news. missing the crucial information all the time. these journalists with degrees cant correctly brief most stories they cover.
2026-09-15 00:55:59
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sailingseas1 :
I appreciated this becuase I never knew Africa was so big. But it still doesn’t explain how such a big continent like Africa has literally nothing.
2026-09-12 15:26:26
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gjhough :
I remember learning the difference between globe and flat maps in elementary school
2026-09-14 14:04:29
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matthias8422 :
either way a map is mostly used for navigation, who cares about the relative size. It's even worse that the new map doesn't even get the shape right
2026-09-11 00:54:03
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sodapop1028 :
Just use globes instead of maps.
2026-09-10 18:46:59
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BrianMaywood :
Maps serve a purpose. If someone wants accuracy of size get a globe.
2026-09-14 11:01:56
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grasshopper records :
it's the OTHER land masses etc that are more correct in size. Africa is virtually the same size as in Mercator. folks keep writing that Mercator preserved shape but no, Canada is nowhere near that wide vs tall.
2026-09-10 16:23:48
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moggedinc. ᯤ 𓈆 1% :
probably the most sound and sane post I've seen about the UN map vote— thank you!
2026-09-12 04:10:04
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Carlis :
I was taught the Mercato projection back in the early 70s in geography class and I remember distinctly even that the teacher pointed out that it exaggerated size the further you go from the equator. So really there’s nothing new here.
2026-09-11 14:26:11
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crochet2me :
My problem with the coverage is... how are they going to actually change their actions (or encourage others to) that will actually improve the inequalities that are allegedly caused by the sizes being "wrong" on a map. Changing the map feels like putting lipstick on a pig -- no matter how "accurate", it's still a pig. If the underlying causes of the problems they want to address aren't being targeted for fixing, then no amount of flat map shenanigans is going to make a difference to anything that matters. Maybe it's just me, but I have never once in my life thought the problems in Africa (or elsewhere) were because of their size on a map and it feels like your teachers really let you down if you reached adulthood not being taught about history in the last several thousand years.
2026-09-10 20:14:07
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Sharkman :
If you read the headline and then went to look for the "new" map in question, you saw a map that we've all seen before.
2026-09-14 00:02:12
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Andrew :
The UN really dropped the ball by not backing a cylindrical projection, I doubt that any web-based mapping application will consider modifying to support their resolution. Most people interact with maps via Google or Apple Maps, and Web Mercator will continue to exist there. I feel that Miller Cylindrical or some other hybrid cylindrical projection would have been the best option for real change
2026-09-11 01:54:45
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Etothetaui :
Does Google maps still use Mercator?
2026-09-11 03:58:11
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Ms4lzma :
Big fan of the Peirce Quincuncial projection, I made a big painting of it in my house 🙏
2026-09-11 15:13:23
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Kirilucci :
Is a possible answer to teach kids with a few different maps and explain the benefits, sacrifices, and best uses? Get them to be able recognize locations on any map. It seems like this is an obvious hole in geography curriculum
2026-09-12 10:17:55
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Tachy :
A straight line on Mercator is absolutely NOT a straight line in real life. It’s a rhumb line, which nobody uses for navigation anymore, because we have software.
2026-09-12 14:07:39
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Yap Cher Choo :
I thought we use GPS for navigation.
2026-09-12 03:17:47
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benktok :
This is a fantastic summary of the tradeoffs in projections and the considerations around them. Sounds like a good resolution, even if the coverage was bad!
2026-09-11 09:18:11
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kylebooth211 :
I bet you could get pretty far moving the distortion to the oceans. It'll just look like a pond at the equator and a vast ocean near the poles. Antarctica will always have issues though.
2026-09-12 14:08:32
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Tzvi :
I think the need to have a rectangle map is the problem.
2026-09-11 01:41:45
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Good Citizen :
Awesome stuff
2026-09-12 10:48:53
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Nicole Douglass :
I am lucky that when I was taught about maps (at Boston Public, I suppose not surprisingly), I was also taught very clearly about the flattening effect and how manipulating a globe would always produce inaccurate results. They showed us multiple versions of world maps. I was in grade school. I am 43 so this was pretty long time ago. I kind of thought most people knew this about maps but also understood why the African contingent would want their continent seen more accurately than Mercator. Though it may be the more important/useful for navigation, most maps kind of sit inertly in classrooms sending a message.
2026-09-13 13:57:42
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Elaine :
NZ is on the map, it gets left off so many maps.
2026-09-11 05:13:54
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Sahan Rohana :
thank you for very clearly explaining this
2026-09-11 12:24:31
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