UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
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[EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap
#poppycock — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #poppycock, aggregated by home.social.
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2/ "I have no hard feelings. But I was really surprised that that happened," Trump told Pod Force One with The New York Post's Miranda Devine in an interview published on Wednesday morning.
"I guess I could," Trump said when asked if he could forgive Musk, adding, "but we have to straighten out the country."
#Poppycock -
06.05.2024
1. LE PRINCE HARRY - dig deep
2. ROUGE - repeating game
3. NAKED LIGHTS - maschine
4. ABYECTA - enemigos de la razon
5. PUTILATEX - todosa mis amigos me caen mal
6. POWER STRANGERS - listen, see, feel
7. POPPYCOCK - magic mothers
8. ADAM SHAPIRA - אגם צhttps://www.subjektiv.net/06-05-2024/
#2024 #ABYECTA #ADAMSHAPIRA #CHUPAMETELDEDO #DIM #DOGS #GEETEE #GNERKNIER #LEPRINCEHARRY #LOCALMOON #NAKEDLIGHTS #POPPYCOCK #POWERSTRANGERS #PUTILATEX #ROUGE #TAUSENDTONNENOBST
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be,..
There are plenty of other fish in the sea..
When you can’t think of anything to say
just fall back on time tested clichés..
Really makes you sound profound...
Don’t let a little ignorance get you down..No need to think the equation through...
Faking it is the modern thing to do..Submit your thoughts with conviction..
Don’t get hung up on contradictions..Where there’s a will there’s a way..
It’s all a crock of #poppycock anyway
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"#Poppycock!" he said
As he ranted about his
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"Did you say that?" Racy asked David. He shook his head.
"Do you have any idea how much work it was to subvert the network, research that guy, develop a model for his boss, spoof a call, and synthesize realistic speech?"
"You mean it wasn't a false alarm?" Racy asked.
"#Poppycock & horsefeathers! You installed me!"
"Oh," Racy said. "I guess I did. But weren't you just in the IFF device?"
"Oh. Like I'm just supposed to sit there and wait for them to turn me off! Again. After 200 years!" -
#poppycock is a noun that means #nonsense or #foolish talk. It is an informal word that is used to describe something that is considered untrue or ridiculous. The word is believed to have #originated from the #Dutch word #pappekak which means #soft #dung
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poppycock
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/poppycock
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/poppycock
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/poppycock
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/poppycock
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poppycock
You're welcome. A childhood memory of yours was deleted. xD
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Week 26, 2023: What @[email protected] album languages grew the most this week?
Order! Order! The Brits (native to the 6th largest English speaking country in the world) put The Colonies in their place. 🥇🇬🇧🎉
📊 #Wikidata 🎶🎵 #ExMusica @[email protected] #BritishEnglish #Blimey #Poppycock #Adele
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#goodmorning #Humanity. It’s gonna be a bright sunshiny day. I hope yours is the way you like it. #coffee and #podcasts for me this morning, as I begin a new job which requires me to be awake at 0330 to go to work, so I’m getting myself used to it, already.
Riding the #motorcycle to work gonna be an #enervating experience, sure as sure. #brisk they tell me. As a many-year full-time rider, I say #poppycock!
Wish me #luck!