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love this visualization how map projections distort the globe (share with the kids!)

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Distopos3 years ago

I'd lose the outline. It doesn't represent anything that exists, and distracts from the distortions in the real things that are represented.

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ian bremmer3 years ago

true

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ㅤ ㅤ ㅤㅤ🌏 <br />空兒3 years ago

It's missing something: A visualization of the difference when you don't take the UK as the center of the map.

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Ken Bannan3 years ago

Why did they leave out the two main ones, Mercator and Great Circle?

🇺🇦🇪🇺Richard Preschel🇫🇷🇻🇪's profile picture
🇺🇦🇪🇺Richard Preschel🇫🇷🇻🇪3 years ago

Peters projection. My favorite:

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Jens Kull3 years ago

@iamkhayyam What about the Dimaxion Airocean?

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M. Haytham Matthews3 years ago

Missing Equal Earth and AuthaGraph...

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Sam Pooley3 years ago

Note that they’re all centered on the Atlantic … maybe the Pacific is too large, too far away?

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Alberto Monroy3 years ago

@ArnulfoFloresH1 @DescargarVid

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Alberto Monroy3 years ago

@DownVideoBot

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