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💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Example Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland<br>--<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND</span><span class="invisible">-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/</span></a> &lt;-- shared media article<br>--<br>[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...]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reuters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reuters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenland</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualisation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/presentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presentation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NorthwestPassage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthwestPassage</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NorthernSeaRoute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernSeaRoute</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/seaice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seaice</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/thaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thaw</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/melting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>melting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/routing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>routing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shipping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shipping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transportation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/strategic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strategic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NORAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NORAD</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/monitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monitoring</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/naturalresources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturalresources</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mineral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mineral</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oilandgas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oilandgas</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rareearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rareearth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/indigeneous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indigeneous</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>size</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/population" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>population</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>area</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/glacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glacier</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a></p>
Luís de Sousa<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>infobeautiful</span></a></span> Not only is this map utterly incorrect, so are all those simplistic solutions like "TrueSize".</p><p>If you wish to compare areas you need an equal-area <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapProjection</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopMercator</span></a></p>
oschene<p>Pop Art</p><p>(Wait for it....)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/origami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>origami</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/origami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>origami</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PopArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AndyWarhol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AndyWarhol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapProjection</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]<br>--<br><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">visualcapitalist.com/mercator-</span><span class="invisible">map-true-size-of-countries/</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">equal-earth.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]<br>--<br>[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]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>size</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustSayNoToGallPeters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nautical</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spheroid</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globe</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>area</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shape</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>direction</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalearth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhomb</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhomblines</span></a></p>
oschene<p>Valck Projected onto the Intersection of Six Cylinders</p><p>A gentle reminder that a map is not intended to show you the relative size of nation states. That's why we have globes. If you have an inflated sense of Greenland, well, that's pretty much on you.</p><p>From Gerard Valck's Nouus planiglobii terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus, 1695. <br><a href="https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:x633f9162" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">collections.leventhalmap.org/s</span><span class="invisible">earch/commonwealth:x633f9162</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MapProjection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kirigami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kirigami</span></a></p>
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