The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by kibwen on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:48AM (#25108858)

Mine is Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

Great for showing the relative sizes of continents (and also visualizing how all the continents are nearly one contiguous landmass), at the cost of chopping up the oceans.

Second favorite is the Peirce quincuncial map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection , which tiles the plane.

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Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by ghosty141 on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:22AM (#25110129)

The Dymaxion map is very interesting, I was a bit surprised just how connected the continents actually are.

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Re:The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection by speeder on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:53AM (#25111592)

Pangea theory is much more obvious when you look at that map.

Also it is interesting that it is as if the whole "land" of the world is basically a big island in the middle of the ocean.

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