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.

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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.

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dnautics 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the task here?

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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)