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💧🌏 Greg CocksExample Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland -- <a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/</a> <-- shared media article -- [this post is NOT about geopolitics, rather the excellent use of multiple maps to illustrate the story / situation… so no text from the article itself...] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reuters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reuters</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greenland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visualisation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/presentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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Luís de Sousa<a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infobeautiful</a> Not only is this map utterly incorrect, so are all those simplistic solutions like "TrueSize".If you wish to compare areas you need an equal-area <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopMercator</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksMercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes] -- <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a> <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases] -- [note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#size</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JustSayNoToGallPeters</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalarea</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nautical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navigation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spheroid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#globe</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#direction</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#equalearth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomb</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rhomblines</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksThe Equal Earth Map Projection -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949</a> <-- shared (2018) paper -- <a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://equal-earth.com/</a> <-- shared web page, including downloadable high resolution map products -- [an older paper, but still a wonderful projection IMHO, supported in many GIS softwares and apps now, and rightly so] “The Equal Earth map projection is a new equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps. It is inspired by the widely used Robinson projection, but unlike the Robinson projection, retains the relative size of areas. The projection equations are simple to implement and fast to evaluate. Continental outlines are shown in a visually pleasing and balanced way…” <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EqualEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EqualEarth</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EqualEarthProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EqualEarthProjection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projections</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojections</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#global</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/worldmapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldmapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PseudocylindricalProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudocylindricalProjection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RobinsonProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobinsonProjection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GallPetersProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GallPetersProjection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksA New Coordinate System for Constructing Spherical Grid Systems -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/app10020655" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3390/app10020655</a> <-- shared paper -- [the math is way above my skills, but a fascinating paper regardless] <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialgrids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialgrids</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spherical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spherical</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/framework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#framework</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sphericalframework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sphericalframework</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/areacoordinates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#areacoordinates</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spatialdata</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coordinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coordinate</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coordinatesystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coordinatesystem</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#singularity</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapprojection</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gridsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gridsystems</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/grid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapgrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapgrid</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geodesy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geodesy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geodetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geodetic</a>

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