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🇦🇶 Antartica (or Greenland) Mercator Projection 🗺️ (startrek.website)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Canuck@sh.itjust.works to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/37179551

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

and THAT is 1 reason why the Dymaxion Map is THE Right Map:

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

( another is simply that you can give kids cardboard Dymaxion-map/globes for them to have, so they can study it for fun, whenever they want, & earn better understanding of the world they're born-into, without any "big tech" machiavellianism working through the plain tech.

Another is that you can do the landmasses OR the oceans on the thing, as its "center"!

: )

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Great projection, it makes a lot of sense!