#landarea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landarea, aggregated by home.social.
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Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines -
Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines -
Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines -
Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines -
Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines -
Medzi najväčšie krajiny podľa pevniny patrí Rusko s rozlohou 17,1 milióna kilometrov štvorcových a Kanada s rozlohou 9,98 milióna kilometrov. Tieto rozsiahle národy majú rozmanité krajiny, od ruskej sibírskej divočiny po kanadskú arktickú tundru, čo z nich robí hlavných geografických gigantov.
#Russia #Canada #LargestCountries #Geography #GlobalGiants #VastLandscapes #WorldGeography #LandArea #Siberia #ArcticRegions
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Antarctica Is Turning Green At An Alarming Rate, Satellite Images Show
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/04/climate/antarctica-greening-vegetation-satellite-images/index.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01564-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #landsat #Antarctica #anthropogenic #climatechange #greening #AntarcticPeninsula #vegetation #plant #NDVI #landscape #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #moss #landarea #temperature #extremes #extremeweather #soil #invasivespecies #native #wildlife -
Mapping The Planet’s Critical Areas For Biodiversity And Nature’s Contributions To People
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43832-9 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #global #biodiversity #nature #humanimpact #climatechange #foodsecurity #habitat #sustainabledevelopment #spatialcongruence #ecosystems #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #people #population #highdevelopment #conservation #landarea #hydrology #GlobalBiodiversityFramework #agriculture #energy #renewableenergy #oilandgas #mining #urban #urbangrowth #conflict #accomodation #NCP -
Mapped - The World's Countries Compared By 20 Key Metrics
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/worlds-countries-compared-by-20-metrics-animated-map/ <-- shared article
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H/T Anders Sundell
“Which countries have the largest populations? What about the rural versus urban population divide? And which countries have the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), military expenditures, or tech exports?
Instead of comparing countries by one metric, this animation and series of graphics by Anders Sundell uses 20 different categories of World Bank data to compare countries. The data was sourced in July 2022 and contains the latest available data for each country…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #countries #world #global #metrics #comparasions #population #demographics #GDP #fuel #exports #co2emissions #area #landarea #terrority
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