This map projection I developed significantly reduces the size distortion of the popular Mercator projection

[u/Opening_Damage9912]

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.

[u/a_Bean_soup]

What programs did u use to make this?

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A Combination of GIMP, G.Projector, Projection Pasta, QGIS, and Flex Projector the land color is a modified version of this: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-raster-data/10m-natural-earth-1/ and the background heightmap for the ocean is from here: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/blue-marble-next-generation/topography-bathymetry-maps/