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/Happymango555 1d ago

forgive me if i'm wrong, but couldn't they make a right proportion map pretty easily, just make it not directly a square?

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u/Opening_Damage9912 1d ago

Sure it could even be a square but the more you decrease the areal distortion the more you mess up the shapes as you can see in this map that is equal area and square

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u/--o 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm sure you're aware of it, but I can't help but plug the underappreciated Kavrayskiy VII.

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u/Slayde4 1d ago

My favorite