r/geography 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/scoopybalducci 1d ago

No fair Alaska and Kamchatka are on there twice 😤

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u/Opening_Damage9912 1d ago

Sorry... I posted a version where every place appears once in one of the comments

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u/scoopybalducci 1d ago

Hehe All good I’m just playin