The article doesn’t show what the “Equal Earth” projection looks like. Having Geography/Cartography degree, I was curious because it’s been 30 some odd years since studying it and I’ve never heard of it before. Equal Earth looks like a Sinusoidal Projection. The problem with this projection is that it now “distorts” the view of the two poles. Now they have a beef with the map. For Africa’s information-all countries along the equator on a Mercator projection, are more true to form than those not along the equator. The middle of their country sits smack dab on the equator. I guess they were just concerned about the size of Greenland. Maybe because of PDJT’s desire for it?
Equal treatment starts to seem like oppression. Or something.
“Maybe because of PDJT’s desire for it?”
The “proper size” map people have been around my entire life. They come across as “it’s a conspiracy” types. I remember a hippie girl in college going over all the conspiracies and, as I recall, it was aliens, chem trails, the map and a few others I don’t recall. I came to associate the proper size map people with the chem trails and area 51 nut cases.
I can’t understand how this came up in the UN. It’s not like there aren’t real problems they could occupy their time with. What would be the practical change if the world adopted their map? Maybe it’s something like gay marriage, or could it be a power thing like, “Now you have to bake the cake?” What would the proper map people then be able to force down our throats?
Click the earth menu in the bottom left and bring up the menu. At the bottom of the menu there are 8 different projections to chose from.
If you have a touch screen you can move these projections all over the place. For example the “O” projection which is a globe - touch the screen and spin it any direction. All the projections move around and some are pretty bizarre!