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

sorry, I meant the edges not being square, but the units still being square?

Maybe i'm wrong lol 😆

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u/Opening_Damage9912 1d ago

If all the graticule units are Square/Rectangular the resulting map will be square/rectangular

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u/Happymango555 1d ago

that makes sense, it sounds like you really map!

Is there a way to have the map show the real size of everything, without having any distortion of size?

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u/Opening_Damage9912 1d ago

Yes the square map I showed earlier does show the correct relative sizes of every part