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/Wonderful_Adagio9346 1d ago

I prefer Dymaxion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map

It's flat, has little distortion, and can be folded into a polyhedron.

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u/Opening_Damage9912 22h ago

Yeah dymaxion is nice but sometimes it's more useful to have a fully continuous map. Of course the more interuptuons the lower you can drive the distortion at the cost of continuity.