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marcinignac 27 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every nam...

Mercator police: please do not use projection that makes Greenland 14x bigger than reality and e.g. Russia 2x. See here https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-c...

Robinson Projection would be much more accurate.

OsrsNeedsf2P 27 days ago | [–]

The irony of this link not providing any static visual alternative to projection

analog31 27 days ago | | [–]

Maybe that's why Trump wants to take Greenland, and Canada, and looks up to Russia.

Imagine foreign policy being distorted by the Mercator projection.

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