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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Example Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland
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reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND <-- shared media article
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[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...]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #media #reuters #greenland #projection #visualisation #education #presentation #NorthwestPassage #NorthernSeaRoute #ice #climatechange #seaice #thaw #melting #navigation #routing #shipping #transportation #geopolitics #strategic #military #NORAD #monitoring #naturalresources #mineral #oilandgas #rareearth #indigeneous #FirstNation #size #population #area #mapprojection #marine #glacier #ocean

photo - Snow covers houses in Old Nuuk, located in front of Sermitsiaq Island in Greenland, February 5, 2025.
maps - showing Greenland's size and population vs. US examples
maps - Untapped resources - A 2023 survey showed that 25 of 34 minerals deemed “critical raw materials” by the European Commission were found in Greenland.
more polar orientated map showing marine navigation routes in the area...
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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visualcapitalist.com/mercator- <-- shared technical article
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equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[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]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

map/graphic - Greenland shown on the globe
map - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries
map/image - Greenland shown on the globe
map/graphic - Russia shown on the globe
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oschene

Valck Projected onto the Intersection of Six Cylinders

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.

From Gerard Valck's Nouus planiglobii terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus, 1695.
collections.leventhalmap.org/s

A map projection based on the intersection of six cylinders.
A modular kirigami model of a map projection based on the intersection of six cylinders. That is, a globe.
#map#MapProjection#globe
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