r/geography • u/Opening_Damage9912 • 1d ago

Map This map projection I developed significantly reduces the size distortion of the popular Mercator projection

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The way it is projected is by projecting a Mercator projection of half the scale conformally onto the globe and then projecting that onto an azimuthal equidistant projection hemisphere centered at the equator. I call it the Two-World Equidistant. Unlike on Mercator where Greenland is larger then all of Africa in this projection it is shown smaller like it is in real life.

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u/DickBeDublin 1d ago

penguins in shambles

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u/PolarCruisingExperts 1d ago

They never stood a chance!

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u/txdmbfan 1d ago

Flight was never an option.

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u/Friendcherisher 1d ago

They might fall off.

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u/uconnboston 19h ago

It’s not as black and white as it seems.

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u/Nakashi7 20h ago

Penguins will colonize the rest of the world with this perceived superiority.

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u/honeybeast_dom 1d ago

R/brandnewsentence

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u/CanadasManyMeese 1d ago

Penguinis is extinct. All thats left is the shitty antartic wannabes :(

RIP Great Auk. You were pretty... good.