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  1. Now that UN gave that decision about the new preferable map projection, do you think even one map/GPS application on Android will start using it?

    Mercator isn't the right way to handle world-maps when you're travelling by land.

    For example, two years ago I went by Interrail to Greece. Had a hell of time measuring where on that yellow line was the midpoint of my journey. Can you spot it without doing calculations?

    ½

    #Maps #Mercator #GoogleMaps #OrganicMaps #mapprojections #Finland #Greece

  2. Now that UN gave that decision about the new preferable map projection, do you think even one map/GPS application on Android will start using it?

    Mercator isn't the right way to handle world-maps when you're travelling by land.

    For example, two years ago I went by Interrail to Greece. Had a hell of time measuring where on that yellow line was the midpoint of my journey. Can you spot it without doing calculations?

    ½

    #Maps #Mercator #GoogleMaps #OrganicMaps #mapprojections #Finland #Greece

  3. Now that UN gave that decision about the new preferable map projection, do you think even one map/GPS application on Android will start using it?

    Mercator isn't the right way to handle world-maps when you're travelling by land.

    For example, two years ago I went by Interrail to Greece. Had a hell of time measuring where on that yellow line was the midpoint of my journey. Can you spot it without doing calculations?

    ½

    #Maps #Mercator #GoogleMaps #OrganicMaps #mapprojections #Finland #Greece

  4. Now that UN gave that decision about the new preferable map projection, do you think even one map/GPS application on Android will start using it?

    Mercator isn't the right way to handle world-maps when you're travelling by land.

    For example, two years ago I went by Interrail to Greece. Had a hell of time measuring where on that yellow line was the midpoint of my journey. Can you spot it without doing calculations?

    ½

    #Maps #Mercator #GoogleMaps #OrganicMaps #mapprojections #Finland #Greece

  5. RE: en.osm.town/@seav/116823204398

    So the 80th session of the #UnitedNations General Assembly held a vote yesterday on the anti- #Mercator resolution that I wrote about back in June. It passed 164–1, with the #UnitedStates being the lone opposing vote very likely because the resolution is “woke” and goes against Trump’s distaste of DEI.

    Resolution: docs.un.org/en/A/80/L.104

    #maps #MapProjections #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #geopolitics