#mercator — Public Fediverse posts
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A Mercator map claimed to divide humanity into two equal geographic groups. My wife asked what it would look like using the Equal Earth projection--so I rebuilt it from an SVG, GeoNames population data, awk, a spreadsheet, and a little CSS. The highlighted countries contain 49.65% of the listed world population.
https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1113
#Cartography #EqualEarth #Mercator #DataVisualization #SVG #OpenData #Linux #awk
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A Mercator map claimed to divide humanity into two equal geographic groups. My wife asked what it would look like using the Equal Earth projection--so I rebuilt it from an SVG, GeoNames population data, awk, a spreadsheet, and a little CSS. The highlighted countries contain 49.65% of the listed world population.
https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=1113
#Cartography #EqualEarth #Mercator #DataVisualization #SVG #OpenData #Linux #awk
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My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I take a look at map projections, and specifically at the Mercator projection popularly used by mapping services such as Google Maps. GIS professionals in particular might remember EPSG:900913 from the late 2000s. 🗺️
https://technology.inquirer.net/147648/why-africa-looks-smaller-than-it-really-is-on-google-maps
(Inquirer.net is the digital arm of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's largest newspaper.)
#TechINQ #GoogleMaps #Mercator #maps #Mapstodon #gischat #Africa
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My latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I take a look at map projections, and specifically at the Mercator projection popularly used by mapping services such as Google Maps. GIS professionals in particular might remember EPSG:900913 from the late 2000s. 🗺️
https://technology.inquirer.net/147648/why-africa-looks-smaller-than-it-really-is-on-google-maps
(Inquirer.net is the digital arm of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's largest newspaper.)
#TechINQ #GoogleMaps #Mercator #maps #Mapstodon #gischat #Africa
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Für uns ist heute und morgen @floriankoenig auf der #rePublica.
Heute ab 12:30 Uhr geht es zur Session: »Graswurzeln gegen #DarkTech: Der Digital Independence Day« mit:
🔹 @SandraGoldschmidt, #verdi #Hamburg
🔹@FranziskaHeine von @wikimediaDE
🔹@bjoernsta von #SaveSocial
🔹Wolfgang Oels, COO @ecosia
🔹@Sascha von @bonndigitalDie Session wird unterstützt von der Stiftung #Mercator.
👉 https://re-publica.com/de/session/graswurzeln-gegen-dark-tech-der-digital-independence-day
#DiDay #DutGemacht #SocialMedia #Kommunikation #BigTech #StiftungMercator
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Für uns ist heute und morgen @floriankoenig auf der #rePublica.
Heute ab 12:30 Uhr geht es zur Session: »Graswurzeln gegen #DarkTech: Der Digital Independence Day« mit:
🔹 @SandraGoldschmidt, #verdi #Hamburg
🔹@FranziskaHeine von @wikimediaDE
🔹@bjoernsta von #SaveSocial
🔹Wolfgang Oels, COO @ecosia
🔹@Sascha von @bonndigitalDie Session wird unterstützt von der Stiftung #Mercator.
👉 https://re-publica.com/de/session/graswurzeln-gegen-dark-tech-der-digital-independence-day
#DiDay #DutGemacht #SocialMedia #Kommunikation #BigTech #StiftungMercator
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Schritt für Schritt zum Orientierungs-Profi - Teil 16: Die Mercator-Projektion
Bei der Darstellung von dreidimensionalen Körpern wie der Erde auf zweidimensionalen Karten ergeben sich so einige Herausforderungen.
https://Weinbergwandern.at/Orientierung-16
#Navigation #Orientierung #Globus #karte #kartographie #mercator #Mercatorprojektion
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Mercator projection ON - Mercator projection OFF.
#geography #StopMercator #mercator #northernhemisphere -
Mercator projection ON - Mercator projection OFF.
#geography #StopMercator #mercator #northernhemisphere -
Remember when #DonaldTrump wanted to acquire #Greenland by force if necessary because it was so huge (one of his reasons)? Well, this stems from a common mistake due to using the #Mercator projection. 55 countries in the African Union now voted to replace it with the Equal Earth projection, created in 2018 by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9rGGQMy9A
https://piped.video/watch?v=BH9rGGQMy9A
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Remember when #DonaldTrump wanted to acquire #Greenland by force if necessary because it was so huge (one of his reasons)? Well, this stems from a common mistake due to using the #Mercator projection. 55 countries in the African Union now voted to replace it with the Equal Earth projection, created in 2018 by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH9rGGQMy9A
https://piped.video/watch?v=BH9rGGQMy9A
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Mercator — Cartographie de SI Open Source https://linuxfr.org/news/mercator-cartographie-de-si-open-source #logiciel_libre #cybersécurité #cartographie #Sécurité #mercator #sécurité #nis2 #gpl
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Mercator — Cartographie de SI Open Source https://linuxfr.org/news/mercator-cartographie-de-si-open-source #logiciel_libre #cybersécurité #cartographie #Sécurité #mercator #sécurité #nis2 #gpl
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Liegt heute leider dauerhaft im Hafen Oostende.
#Mercator #Oostende #Segelschiff #Belgien #SailingShip #Sailing #Museum
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Liegt heute leider dauerhaft im Hafen Oostende.
#Mercator #Oostende #Segelschiff #Belgien #SailingShip #Sailing #Museum
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'Klar Schiff!' #FotoVorschlag
Die 'Mercator' der belgischen Marine. Ein Foto des Fotos auf dem Schiff selbst. Leider heute nur noch ein Museumsschiff.
#Mercator #Oostende #Segelschiff #Belgien #SailingShip #Sailing #Museum
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'Klar Schiff!' #FotoVorschlag
Die 'Mercator' der belgischen Marine. Ein Foto des Fotos auf dem Schiff selbst. Leider heute nur noch ein Museumsschiff.
#Mercator #Oostende #Segelschiff #Belgien #SailingShip #Sailing #Museum
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👉 Zum Blogbeitrag:
https://zevedi.de/im-schatten-der-kunst/Das Beitragsbild wurde mithilfe von KI erstellt.
#ZEVEDI #Digitalisierung#Kunst #Gesellschaft #Journalismus #Mercator
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👉 Zum Blogbeitrag:
https://zevedi.de/im-schatten-der-kunst/Das Beitragsbild wurde mithilfe von KI erstellt.
#ZEVEDI #Digitalisierung#Kunst #Gesellschaft #Journalismus #Mercator
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Zum heutigen Geburtstag von Gerhard #Mercator, am 5. März geboren als Gheert Cremer: Das zweite #Meridiandenkmal in #Marktleuthen #Oberfranken des 12. #Längengrad|s am Ufer der #Eger. #Pylone #Fahrrad #Radtour #LandkreisWunsiedel #TagderVermessung Daneben stehen ein WWA-Stein und ein Loch-Grenzstein.
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Zum heutigen Geburtstag von Gerhard #Mercator, am 5. März geboren als Gheert Cremer: Das zweite #Meridiandenkmal in #Marktleuthen #Oberfranken des 12. #Längengrad|s am Ufer der #Eger. #Pylone #Fahrrad #Radtour #LandkreisWunsiedel #TagderVermessung Daneben stehen ein WWA-Stein und ein Loch-Grenzstein.
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Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/170817596
#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
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Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/170817596
#geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator
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I wonder if one reason Trump thinks Greenland is worth fighting for is because it looks really big on a Mercator projection?
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I wonder if one reason Trump thinks Greenland is worth fighting for is because it looks really big on a Mercator projection?
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Voici un "cercle" de rayon 5000km, centré sur Paris. Projeter une sphère sur un planisphère entraîne des déformations ! (Le choix de la couleur orange n'est sans doute pas complètement anodin.) #mercator ©dranerertiam
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Voici un "cercle" de rayon 5000km, centré sur Paris. Projeter une sphère sur un planisphère entraîne des déformations ! (Le choix de la couleur orange n'est sans doute pas complètement anodin.) #mercator ©dranerertiam
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📖 Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3634012.html.
#History #Histodons #Mercator #Maps #Cartography #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
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Animated comparison of country size on a #Mercator #map
As we all (should) know, #Greenland is by far the most affected location, due to its distance from the Ecuador
Ref https://www.visualcapitalist.com/true-size-of-greenland-map-mercator-projection/
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Animated comparison of country size on a #Mercator #map
As we all (should) know, #Greenland is by far the most affected location, due to its distance from the Ecuador
Ref https://www.visualcapitalist.com/true-size-of-greenland-map-mercator-projection/
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(Vergeßt die Hacker)
Warum erhebt Trump keinen Besitzanspruch auf die Antarktis? Die ist noch vieeel gößer als Größtland!
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(Vergeßt die Hacker)
Warum erhebt Trump keinen Besitzanspruch auf die Antarktis? Die ist noch vieeel gößer als Größtland!
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"and for no reason that the president is able to articulate"
I still blame - as silly as it sounds - the #Mercator projection on any map
#Trump sees the island of #Greenland as being far bigger than it is, and in his deluded mind he simply cannot stop obsessing about the hallucination that he can get ***all that*** land just by taking it
Sooo much land, sooo rich with... stuff
And China, and Russia might get it first
Trump is delusional, insane, divorced from any reality that the rest of us share
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"and for no reason that the president is able to articulate"
I still blame - as silly as it sounds - the #Mercator projection on any map
#Trump sees the island of #Greenland as being far bigger than it is, and in his deluded mind he simply cannot stop obsessing about the hallucination that he can get ***all that*** land just by taking it
Sooo much land, sooo rich with... stuff
And China, and Russia might get it first
Trump is delusional, insane, divorced from any reality that the rest of us share
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RE: https://sfba.social/@godofbiscuits/115900137945887047
Unfortunately, he is not alone in not knowing this. But some do know and still keep using #Mercator. Why? (I do have a guess, #Greenland is not the only country bloated disproportionately in size).
Boycot Mercator maps. There is no "correct projection," but few are as bad as Mercator (unless you are doing navigational charts, of course). -
RE: https://sfba.social/@godofbiscuits/115900137945887047
Unfortunately, he is not alone in not knowing this. But some do know and still keep using #Mercator. Why? (I do have a guess, #Greenland is not the only country bloated disproportionately in size).
Boycot Mercator maps. There is no "correct projection," but few are as bad as Mercator (unless you are doing navigational charts, of course). -
I'm more and more convinced that #Trump thinks #Greenland is larger than the USA because he's completely incurious and doesn't know about maps.
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I'm more and more convinced that #Trump thinks #Greenland is larger than the USA because he's completely incurious and doesn't know about maps.
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Wait. So all this is because he didn't realize Greenland wasn't really that big; it's just a Mercator map?!?
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Lol, the wikipedia page for #Mercator projection has an animated GIF that shows just how much #Greenland is inflated, and the actual sizes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Distortion_of_sizes
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Lol, the wikipedia page for #Mercator projection has an animated GIF that shows just how much #Greenland is inflated, and the actual sizes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Distortion_of_sizes
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#mercator projection : land animated down to size https://en.osm.town/@infobeautiful@vis.social/115871613521204319
