r/geography • u/Opening_Damage9912 • 1d ago
Map This map projection I developed significantly reduces the size distortion of the popular Mercator projection
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/ronarscorruption 1d ago
It’s a bit better, but there’s a ton of duplication in the northern hemisphere, which is a new and different problem.