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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (lemmy.world)
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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 15 points 9 hours ago

And that, folks, is why map projections matter, and this update is loooooong overdue.