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-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agodidn’t mean only teach 3-4, just to not regularly use one projection. use a handful so no one instinctively learns to accept one. even though you learned a lot of maps, it’s likely most maps you used when not learning about different projections were the same.
minus-squareDampCanary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoMost likely, because I would guess that >90% of my up to date (after middle school) use of maps was highly localised to plaxe of interest. Which doesn’t really show projection type (or brings relevance of it to surface).
didn’t mean only teach 3-4, just to not regularly use one projection. use a handful so no one instinctively learns to accept one.
even though you learned a lot of maps, it’s likely most maps you used when not learning about different projections were the same.
Most likely, because I would guess that >90% of my up to date (after middle school) use of maps was highly localised to plaxe of interest.
Which doesn’t really show projection type (or brings relevance of it to surface).