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Alan McConchieMore about the #CorrectTheMap campaign is here: https://correctthemap.org/ and you can learn more about the #EqualEarthProjection here: https://equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html
Map projections in the news! And we cartographers are all relieved that it's not the Gall-Peters Projection again. The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.
Via Reuters: "African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size"
#maps #cartography #Africa #Mercator #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #MapProjections #AfricanUnion
Sepia FanZunehmender Protest gegen die Mercator-Karte
Stattdessen wird die Verwendung der Equal Earth Projection gefordert.
Die Projektionen sind ja nicht einfach der Versuch einer Quadratur des Kreises, sondern quasi der Quadratur einer Kugel 😅 …da sind Kompromisse gefragt.
🎧 https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wissenschaft-zunehmender-protest-gegen-die-mercator-karte-100.html
#EqualEarthProjection:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection
#MercatorProjection (Deutsch verfügbar):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
Headlines AfricaAU backs campaign to replace distorted Mercator map http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TMVlxR #CorrectTheMap #MercatorMap #EqualEarthProjection #GeographyMatters #MapAwareness
💧🌏 Greg CocksThe Equal Earth Map Projection
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949 <-- shared (2018) paper
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared web page, including downloadable high resolution map products
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[an older paper, but still a wonderful projection IMHO, supported in many GIS softwares and apps now, and rightly so]
“The Equal Earth map projection is a new equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, retains the relative size of areas. The projection equations are simple to implement and fast to evaluate. Continental outlines are shown in a visually pleasing and balanced way…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #projection #projections #mapprojections #mapprojection #global #worldmapprojection #PseudocylindricalProjection #RobinsonProjection #GallPetersProjection #cartography
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949 <-- shared (2018) paper
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared web page, including downloadable high resolution map products
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[an older paper, but still a wonderful projection IMHO, supported in many GIS softwares and apps now, and rightly so]
“The Equal Earth map projection is a new equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, retains the relative size of areas. The projection equations are simple to implement and fast to evaluate. Continental outlines are shown in a visually pleasing and balanced way…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #EqualEarth #EqualEarthProjection #projection #projections #mapprojections #mapprojection #global #worldmapprojection #PseudocylindricalProjection #RobinsonProjection #GallPetersProjection #cartography
RafRT @mappingbernie@twitter.com: Great to see #EqualEarthProjection now in #QGIS. https://twitter.com/BojanSavric/status/1056981036469432320
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mappingbernie/status/1057034799087607811
Bojan Šavrič on Twitter
“The latest #QGIS 3.4.0 supports #EqualEarthProjection in two steps: (1) In Settings -> Custom Projections… create a custom definition with “+proj=eqearth +datum=WGS84 +wktext” (2) Select the definition in Project -> Properties… -> CRS -> under “User Defined Coordinate System””
RT @JWasilGeo@twitter.com: .@BojanSavric @mappingbernie@twitter.com @MtnMapper@twitter.com your new #EqualEarthProjection is a delight in my #d3js #mapprojection sandbox. Your Tissot’s indicatrices are the best in the world!
Live on @CodePen@twitter.com at https://codepen.io/jwasilgeo/pen/QxGewN
More info in the linked @petrichorviz@twitter.com blog post.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JWasilGeo/status/1034156347015741442