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Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection

A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion.
9 October at 14:55 | Open on vis.social
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Heapy
Radlerin 🚴‍♀️

@infobeautiful that is impressive. Thanks for sharing

9 October at 15:52 | Open on troet.cafe
Mister Moo 🐮

@infobeautiful I'm always looking for new reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection.

9 October at 16:02 | Open on mastodon.online
Harry Wood
Tor Lillqvist

@infobeautiful On the other hand, people just talking about the Mercator projection being misleading all the time is a bit tiresome. No map projection is without faults. Just mentioning Mercator makes it sound as if you thought Mercator would be the most widely used projection.

9 October at 16:20 | Open on urbanists.social
bit101

@tml @infobeautiful I was going to write something like this, but you did a better job than I would have, so I'll just star it.

9 October at 17:20 | Open on mstdn.social
Danielle Crawford

@infobeautiful should be called the guitar pick projection

9 October at 16:40 | Open on hachyderm.io
Kimen (she/they)
Ben Feakins :linux: :rstats: 📷

@infobeautiful would be good to see this for other projections.

9 October at 17:24 | Open on fediscience.org
Donald R Noble

@infobeautiful I have to say this contradicts your username 😁

9 October at 18:29 | Open on mastodon.scot
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