Dr. Moose@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoYSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projectioncorrectthemap.orgexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down123
arrow-up1250arrow-down1external-linkYSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projectioncorrectthemap.orgDr. Moose@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square149fedilink
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-219 days agoit’s a pretty common talking point. and he people most likely to look at maps nowadays are indeed children.
minus-squareRightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·19 days ago it’s a pretty common talking point. Not common enough, apparently. I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 days agolet me rephase; it’s a pretty common talking point when discussing map projections. has been since the 50s.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·18 days agoThis is a subconscious thing, not an explicit belief.
it’s a pretty common talking point. and he people most likely to look at maps nowadays are indeed children.
Not common enough, apparently.
I have never in my life ever heard anyone equate the size of a country on a map to its importance to global politics and economics. And I am old enough to remember when you had to hang up the phone before you could use the internet.
let me rephase; it’s a pretty common talking point when discussing map projections. has been since the 50s.
This is a subconscious thing, not an explicit belief.