| ▲ | dnautics 12 hours ago |
| > many tasks where Mercator would be more useful than an equal-area projection. What sort of tasks besides a size measuring contest is an equal area projection good for? |
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| ▲ | hn993302 8 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Besides size, there's distance. Like it's annoying how UK and France look much further apart than they actually are, and every sea/air route appears to not take the shortest path. I'd be fine with this change if it weren't about trying to make Africa look more important. They're just fixing a misleading map. |
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| ▲ | josephcsible an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Equal area projections don't preserve distance. | |
| ▲ | neuronexmachina 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's worth noting that Equal Earth isn't an equidistant projection. The upper bound on distance distortion is an order of magnitude less than Mercator's though. | |
| ▲ | dnautics 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What's the task here? | | |
| ▲ | hn993302 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Casually looking at a map to understand relatively how far away things are from each other | | |
| ▲ | dnautics an hour ago | parent [-] | | Unless your eye can casually assemble great circle routes it's hopeless on any projection except the radial one (and then only for routes emanating from one spot) |
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