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Ca parle carto cette semaine dans l'Humanité Magazine. #CorrectTheMap #LePlanisphereCarré
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La projection de Mercator est biaisée, au-delà de la vérité scientifique adopter la projection Equal Earth permettrait de rendre à l'#Afrique – un continent plus de 30 millions de km² – sa juste place dans un monde où la #géographie raconte une Histoire peu glorieuse
Le Togo va présenter une nouvelle #carte du monde à l'ONU respectant la taille réelle de l'Afrique
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20260422-le-togo-va-présenter-une-nouvelle-carte-du-monde-à-l-onu-respectant-la-taille-réelle-de-l-afrique -
How does economic complexity correlate with human development?
On today's #gisday I'll share my first attempt at a bivariate chloropleth map.
Admittedly, there's a lot going on and 25 tints can be hard to distinguish, plus I tried to keep it as accessible as possible marrying two accessible color ramps: Mako and Viridis.
#gis #qgis #mapping #CorrectTheMap -
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Le regard de cartographe pour l'Humanité, ça continue. Pour ce premier numéro de la saison, je vous parle de la campagne #CorrectTheMap 🌍🗺 https://www.humanite.fr/en-debat/regard-de-cartographe/pourquoi-faut-il-corriger-la-carte-du-monde
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#AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/african-union-true-size-world-map-replace-mercator-version <-- shared media article
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[just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (https://equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
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Dessiner une carte, c'est comme éplucher une orange. #CorrectTheMap https://youtu.be/ost7lUQuZdc?si=Qlwl6IYtYtYxAy12
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Pourquoi la projection de Mercator pose problème. #CorrectTheMap https://youtu.be/ost7lUQuZdc?si=Qlwl6IYtYtYxAy12
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J'étais hier au JT Afrique de TV5 Monde pour parler de la campagne #CorrectTheMap https://www.youtube.com/live/wzlEeqlZUJs?si=uhTfWYIOuC_jm3p4
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Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:
"Why are we changing maps?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
#PetersProjection #GallPetersProjection #GallPeters #Mercator #MercatorProjection #MapProjections #maps #cartography #CorrectTheMap
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More 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
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#EqualEarth Projektion gefordert:
„Die Afrikanische Union…hat nun beschlossen, gegen diesen Zustand vorzugehen. Sie hat sich…einer Kampagne angeschlossen, die die Welt unter dem Namen #CorrectTheMap dazu auffordert, sich von der Mercator-Projektion zu verabschieden.“ via #SZ
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/afrika-weltkarte-verzerrung-historisch-ungerecht-protest-e222366/?reduced=true
