💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]<br />--<br /><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">visualcapitalist.com/mercator-</span><span class="invisible">map-true-size-of-countries/</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br />--<br /><a href="https://equal-earth.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">equal-earth.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]<br />--<br />[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]<br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenland</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>size</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>landarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mapprojection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JustSayNoToGallPeters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>equalarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mercator</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nautical</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>navigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spheroid</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>globe</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>area</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shape</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>direction</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>equalearth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rhomb</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rhomblines</span></a></p>