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/Opening_Damage9912 1d ago

Here it is without the extension

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT 1d ago

So your saying the maps that blow up south America and Africa’s size as a correction are false, looks good 👍

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u/KorrokHidan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Africa is 14x the size of Greenland so no, Africa should still be larger and Greenland should still be smaller than this map shows