#mercatorprojection — Public Fediverse posts

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

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=BH9rGGQMy9A

#MercatorProjection #GreenlandCrisis #EqualEarthProjection

@syll À propos de la projection de Mercator, connais-tu le site Mercator: Extreme ? (by Drew Roos)
https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#[email protected],6.14629

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors | DEM: SRTM, Sonny | map style: © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA)

#MercatorProjection #MercatorExtreme #maps #worldmap #geography

@syll À propos de la projection de Mercator, connais-tu le site Mercator: Extreme ? (by Drew Roos)
https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#[email protected],6.14629

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors | DEM: SRTM, Sonny | map style: © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA)

#MercatorProjection #MercatorExtreme #maps #worldmap #geography

@syll À propos de la projection de Mercator, connais-tu le site Mercator: Extreme ? (by Drew Roos)
https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#[email protected],6.14629

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors | DEM: SRTM, Sonny | map style: © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA)

#MercatorProjection #MercatorExtreme #maps #worldmap #geography

@syll À propos de la projection de Mercator, connais-tu le site Mercator: Extreme ? (by Drew Roos)
https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#[email protected],6.14629

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors | DEM: SRTM, Sonny | map style: © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA)

#MercatorProjection #MercatorExtreme #maps #worldmap #geography

Trump’s an idiot! Trump’s Greenland Obsession Exposed as Dangerous Ignorance by Blunt Senator

A senator demolishes Trump’s Greenland obsession, exposing ignorance, media complicity, and the danger of reckless leadership. He says Trump is an idiot.

Trump’s an idiot! Trump’s Greenland Obsession Exposed as Dangerous Ignorance by Blunt Senator

A senator demolishes Trump’s Greenland obsession, exposing ignorance, media complicity, and the danger of reckless leadership. He says Trump is an idiot.

Trump’s an idiot! Trump’s Greenland Obsession Exposed as Dangerous Ignorance by Blunt Senator

A senator demolishes Trump’s Greenland obsession, exposing ignorance, media complicity, and the danger of reckless leadership. He says Trump is an idiot.

Trump’s an idiot! Trump’s Greenland Obsession Exposed as Dangerous Ignorance by Blunt Senator

A senator demolishes Trump’s Greenland obsession, exposing ignorance, media complicity, and the danger of reckless leadership. He says Trump is an idiot.

Trump’s an idiot! Trump’s Greenland Obsession Exposed as Dangerous Ignorance by Blunt Senator

A senator demolishes Trump’s Greenland obsession, exposing ignorance, media complicity, and the danger of reckless leadership. He says Trump is an idiot.

Global North countries are far smaller than they actually are. The Mercator projection ads to the narrative of rich countries supremacy. #maps #mercatorprojection #worldmap #geography

#EqualEarth #mercatorprojection

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

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size | Reuters (2025-08-15)

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-urges-adoption-world-map-showing-continents-true-size-2025-08-14/
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>> The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.

>> Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the 'Correct The Map' campaign led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa has revived the debate, urging organisations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection, which tries to reflect countries' true sizes.

>> Other regions are backing the AU's efforts. Dorbrene O'Marde, Vice Chair of the Caribbean Community (#CARICOM) Reparations Commission, endorsed Equal Earth as a rejection of Mercator map's "ideology of power and dominance".

#AU #MercatorProjection #EqualEarthProjection #CorrectTheMap #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

I wondered what #MapProjection #OpenStreetMap uses and zoomed out as far as possible. It looked like a #MercatorProjection to me.

It kinda was confirmed to me when I scrolled that zoomed out map up and down and the scale shown in the very bottom of the browser window changed from 10000km and being about as wide as the USA or Africa when the map is about centered vertically in the browser window to 1m (with a scale width going 4 times around the globe) at the bottom (shown) and upper ends.