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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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[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

so coming from you pleasr tell us what would be the best way to project an as accurate as possible world map? I mena both in 3D version and as a 2D version

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 1 points 31 minutes ago

Pick one that suits your application.

If you're not using it to engage in navigation, Equal Earth is a sensible default.

Tools like Google maps are a bit thornier. They're used for navigation, but generally not in a way where angles matter. I could see someone getting themselves into trouble because the angles are screwy. But then again if Google cared about that sort of case, we wouldn't have the recent story of the Gemini hikers.

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

A 3D version would be a globe. A 2D version is inherently inaccurate because it's 2D and the earth is not. You are free to pick your poison in the manner of your projection but you will always loose something.