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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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[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Waterman butterfly looks very striking though, woulf make an awesome background on a UN logo

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago

Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill map it's based…