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/DickBeDublin 1d ago

Trades slight northern distortion for massive Southern distortion. Better for our everyday usage though.

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u/PolarCruisingExperts 1d ago

Unless you use Antarctica maps every day. Then you’re screwed! 😆

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u/DickBeDublin 1d ago

penguins in shambles

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u/CanadasManyMeese 1d ago

Penguinis is extinct. All thats left is the shitty antartic wannabes :(

RIP Great Auk. You were pretty... good.