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    Es gibt eine wachsende Kampagne, um die Nutzung der Mercator -Karte durch Regierungen und internationale Stellen zu ersetzen, die eine genauere wahre Größen der Länder widerspiegeln.


    Afrika ist der große Verlierer im aktuellen System, da die Mercator -Karte es weit kleiner aussieht als es wirklich ist. Europa und Russland würden in einer korrigierten Karte weit kleiner aussehen (ihre wahre Größe). Brasilien ist auch ein Nutznießer mit einer korrigierten Karte; Es sieht in der Realität weitaus größer aus, als die Mercator -Karte es darstellt.

    Die Kampagne scheint Orte zu gehen. Die Weltbank sagt, dass sie die Verwendung der Mercator -Karte ausschlägt, und verschiedene UN -Körper möchten das Gleiche tun.

    Die Afrikanische Union schließt sich den Anrufen an, um die Verwendung der Mercator -Karte zu beenden, die die Größe des Kontinents schrumpft

    There's a growing campaign to replace the use of the Mercator map by governments and international bodies with one that more accurately reflects countries' true sizes.
    byu/lughnasadh inFuturology

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    1. sump_daddy on

      I would be really interested to know if anyone has published a study on the actual effect of the Mercator map’s distortion. Has Brazil been on the losing side of ‚my country is bigger than yours‘ contests with Greenland?

    2. gerbilshoe on

      I think most people wont even notice or care. I support it. Its nice to see a true representation, but it hasn’t made any difference to anything.

    3. ale_93113 on

      I am surprised to see how common Mercator is in other countries

      In my western European experience, I very rarely see it anywhere, as the standard here is the Plate carrée

      Sure, it doesn’t have perfect size conservation, the poles still are bigger unlike in the Gall Peters, and it also doesn’t have the correct shape and angles of the Mercator

      But it is the mid point between the two, and it seems to be the simplest and best one

      It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a Mercator in the wild

    5. Fresque on

      I always thought mercator could only make things bigger, not smaller. That things were true to sizr at the equator and bigger the farther away from it.

    7. peternn2412 on

      Any campaign from the World bank or ‚UN bodies‘ can be safely ignored, as these entities have near zero significance.

      Everyone has seen a spherical globe of the Earth where everything is represented with its correct size. Zillions of instances of that exist in every school and in most homes. The actual area of each country is a Google search away. That’s not a secret, there is no conspiracy to make Africa less significant.

      We need to represent the Earth on a 2D surface for practical purposes, and the Mercator map is the established way to do it. There are no losers or winners.

    8. aLionInSmarch on

      Compromise – we rotate the map 90 degrees along the equatorial axis so Africa is at the pole and looks enormous.

    9. Green__lightning on

      The Mercator map isn’t an imperialist project to shrink the size of equatorial countries or anything. It is however an imperialist project to improve navigation for ships.

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