• theherk@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Oh boy! Are you serious? Let me be more precise, in case. There aren’t actual projections that are better in all cases than the Mercator projection. There are maps that are better in given cases. ALL maps have trade offs. The one you shared, included. It certainly benefits from the humor of pointing out why this is an issue in the first place.

    https://xkcd.com/977/

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      in all cases I think the part tripping you up

      We can do better with teaching, news and infographics than a map that is just designed for ship navigation.

      It’s like you’d run over a dozen kids in the trolly problem rather than a geriatric because there’s no perfect solution.